(CAPITOL CITY NOW) – Like many things, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is not what it used to be.

The agency, Gov. JB Pritzker said in Teutopolis Tuesday, “has really been cut so drastically that they won’t cover what they consider smaller disasters, smaller emergencies. I don’t think this is a small emergency; in fact, when it happens to you, it’s not a small emergency. But FEMA has really gotten out of the business of doing that, unless it’s tens and tens of millions of dollars of disaster.”

Pritzker has been touring areas hit by tornadoes in June.

The tour, said the governor, has impressed upon him “the number of people who are showing up for each other, in the heat, in the middle of the challenges that everybody’s going through, so many people showing up, and it is a testament to the people of Illinois, to the people who care about one another here. That doesn’t happen everywhere in the country, but it does happen across this state, because I have seen it firsthand.”