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California wildfires are the primary take a look at for a brand new GOP-led Congress

Editorial Board Published January 9, 2025
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Responding to the Los Angeles space’s apocalyptic wildfires would be the first take a look at of the newly minted Republican Congress.

After this previous summer time’s hurricanes left catastrophe funding working low, Congress will virtually actually should allocate extra funding to assist Californians rebuild from what’s projected to be the most expensive wildfire in trendy California historical past.

However with Donald Trump providing solely scorn and blame as Californians flee for security and reckon with the lack of their properties, livelihoods, and possessions, it is unclear whether or not the incoming president will permit Congress to cross support to assist them rebuild.

In 2019, throughout Trump’s first time period, he threatened to drag federal funding from California when it was being destroyed by yet one more main fireplace.

In 2018, when but extra lethal wildfires swept by California, Trump refused to approve catastrophe support for the state till his aides defined to him what number of residents within the impacted areas voted for him.


Water is dropped by helicopter on the burning Sundown Hearth within the Hollywood Hills part of Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025.

What’s extra, it is unclear whether or not Republicans would even put disaster-relief laws on the ground for a vote. Onerous-liners within the GOP convention usually demand funding offsets for catastrophe aid, complicating the passage of funding as Individuals endure.

Home Speaker Mike Johnson was noncommittal when requested by a reporter on Wednesday whether or not his chamber is ready to maneuver on catastrophe aid within the wake of the fires.

“We haven’t addressed it yet,” Johnson informed The Hill.

“It is a true tragedy, and it is a mistake of the governor and, you can say, the [Biden] administration,” Trump informed reporters on Capitol Hill, the place he was assembly with Republican lawmakers to debate the right way to implement his damaging agenda. “They don’t have any water.”

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President-elect Trump: “What’s happening California is a true tragedy…They don’t have any water. They didn’t have water in the fire hydrants…the governor has not done a good job…I got along well with him…looks like we’re going to be the one having to rebuild it.” pic.twitter.com/96tS0vkxre

— CSPAN (@cspan) January 9, 2025

However consultants say Trump is lifeless improper each about the reason for the fireplace and about firefighters’ present incapacity to include it.

“It’s not a matter of having enough water coming from Northern California to put out a fire. It’s about the continued devastating impacts of a changing climate,” Mark Gold, water shortage director for the Pure Assets Protection Council and a board member of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, informed Cal Issues.

Fire crews battle the Eaton Fire on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Hearth crews battle the Eaton Hearth on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in Altadena, California.

“[Los Angeles Department of Water and Power] said that because of the high water demand, pump stations at lower elevations did not have enough pressure refill tanks at higher elevations, and the ongoing fire hampered the ability of crews to access the pumps. To supplement, they used water tenders to supply water—a common tactic in wildland firefighting. But broadly speaking, there is no water shortage in Southern California right now, despite Trump’s claims that he would open some imaginary spigot,” the governor’s press workplace wrote in a publish on X, the place disinformation in regards to the fireplace is spreading as quick because the blaze itself.

Trump was additionally complaining that he must cope with the restoration efforts as soon as he’s inaugurated on Jan. 20.

“NO WATER IN THE FIRE HYDRANTS, NO MONEY IN FEMA. THIS IS WHAT JOE BIDEN IS LEAVING ME. THANKS JOE!” Trump wrote in one other unhinged Reality Social publish on Wednesday.

“We’re prepared to do anything and everything, as long as it takes, to contain the Southern California fires and help reconstruct. But we know it’ll be a hell of a long way,” Biden wrote in a Wednesday publish on X. “The federal government is here to stay as long as you need us.”

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We’re ready to do something and every thing, so long as it takes, to include the Southern California fires and assist reconstruct. However we all know it will be a hell of a good distance.

The federal authorities is right here to remain so long as you want us. pic.twitter.com/roLsYjKOki

— President Biden (@POTUS) January 9, 2025

Donate now to assist Southern California aid efforts.

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