NOT political finger pointing….
AGAIN?
The State of California IS a part of the United States of America….
Would a Present seek to send help to a hurricane wrecked state in the GOP South and try to place punishing Political IOU’s on help for California?
Are we in for a President that looks at POLITICS and ASS Kissing before ANYTHING else?
Oh, By the way?
California sends MORE money to Washington then it receives BACK in federal funds….
President-elect Donald Trump’s long-standing threats to place conditions on California wildfire aid are gaining traction with Republicans, looming over the government’s response to the devastation in Los Angeles and infuriating Democratic leaders who said such actions would be unprecedented.
Withholding natural disaster aid to force policy changes would mark a major escalation in the feud between national Republicans and leaders of Democratic-run cities and states. Recent hurricane funding for mostly GOP-led states passed Congress without any strings attached. Republican senators from two storm-ravaged states have pushed back on the idea of conditions for fire aid in Los Angeles….
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“We’re going to take care of your water situation, and we’ll force it down his throat,” Trump said of California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) last fall during a rally in Coachella, California. “And we’ll say: Gavin, if you don’t do it, we’re not giving you any of that fire money that we send you all the time for all the fire, forest fires that you have.”
Compounding Democratic ire is the volume of misinformation that Trump and his allies are spreading to justify their stance. They have falsely claimed that Southern California lacks water because of poor policy decisions, but in fact its reservoirs are full…..
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One irony of the dispute is that California is a donor state to federal coffers, sending more money to Washington that it receives in return — one of only a handful of states for which that is true.
Trump’s fixation on California’s water policy has frustrated experts who say it has nothing to do with the fires raging around Los Angeles. In social media posts last week, Trump suggested that Newsom is depriving the region of water and noted that some fire hydrants had run dry.
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