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Trump sued for threat to pull Covid-19 funding over road blockade
Trump’s chief of staff threatened to garnish federal coronavirus relief funding from a South Dakota Indian tribe if it didn’t remove roadblocks intended to limit the spread of the virus, according to a lawsuit. The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe said the threat was one of several federal officials made after South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem asked the president for help in getting rid of the checkpoints.The tribe erected roadblocks on highways that pass through its reservation in early April when the coronavirus began spreading in South Dakota.