“Hatred is never a good thing in politics,” Trump went on to say. “When you don’t like somebody, you don’t respect somebody, it’s harder for that person to get money if you’re on top.”
In February, the governor requested almost $40 billion in extra help from the federal authorities in response to the Southern California wildfires.
Requested concerning the standing of California’s request, a White Home spokesperson final week referred to a latest Trump Oval Workplace handle, the place the president mentioned his administration might be “phasing out” the Federal Emergency Administration Company after hurricane season ends in November. Trump mentioned he desires states to “wean off of FEMA” and desires catastrophe reduction efforts to be extra state-led.
On the similar time, Trump just lately accredited catastrophe declarations for different states, together with Missouri, a state with a Republican supermajority that was hit with devastating tornadoes, storms and flooding in April and Might.
This isn’t the primary time Trump has thought-about withholding help to California due to the state’s politics. He reportedly weighed doing the identical in 2018, after California suffered one other brutal wildfire season, however modified his thoughts after being proven voter registration information from Orange County the place extra voters had been registered Republican than Democrat.
Quick ahead to 2025.
A federal choose final week decided that Trump’s federalization of the Nationwide Guard was unlawful. However the Trump administration instantly challenged the ruling.
Three different judges on an appeals panel heard the case Tuesday however has but to render a call.
