This is good news for Chris Christie. It gives him another excuse to pucker up to Obama’s butt.
Think twice about that, Christie's job is to get things happening asap for New Jersey. Pi$$ing off Duh-1 is not the way to make that happen.
It also leaves a lot of the animus for what does not happen square on the head of the very person who said he was 'going to slash the red tape' before jetting off to campaign some more. Now, it's Obama's fault, and no one can blame Christie for anything which would cause the Federal Government's assistance to be slow.
Because Christie toadied up to Obama, Obama now owns the mess. Anything done at the State/private level which is more efficient and exceeds the Federal response just makes Obama look bad.