In an interview with Fox News character Sean Hannity, Donald Trump threatened to withhold aid from Los Angeles to deal with the disastrous fire unless the state changes its waters plans.
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“ I don’t think we should give California anything until they let water flow down, ” he told Hannity.
Trump was referring to the idea that Northern California has refused to allow water to flow in order to protect many species of fish.
He also railed against the Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ), saying the agency “gets in the way of everything. “
“I’d instead see the says take care of their own issues, ” he said. He hinted at FEMA transformation, saying there’s “going to be a whole great conversation very quickly. ”
On Wednesday at a media event, Trump explained why California needs to reform its waters plans. He said a gate had provide virtually unlimited amounts of water from Northern California to the Los Angeles lake.
” They have a gate, think of a fall but increase it by countless thousands of times the size of it, it’s huge. And you turn it back toward Los Angeles. Why aren’t they doing it? They both have a death wish, they’re ridiculous, or there’s something else going on that we don’t know,” Trump said.
Trump is scheduled to visit California to survey the damage from this month’s devastating flames this year, but he said he was not yet sure if he would join with Newsom while it. He derided Newsom for his response to questions about why the region ’s largest state has failed to include the flames, which have killed at least 27 people and left 22 more unaccounted for.Newsom wrote a letter to Trump earlier this month asking him to come see the devastation first and to join with firefighters and people affected by the flames. Newsom’s group has never heard back from Trump’s staff, but the California government plans to meet him as he steps off Air Force One, advisers to Newsom said.
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In addition to being forced to shake hands with Gavin Newsom ( maybe he won’t ), Trump will visit hurricane-ravaged western North Carolina. Life is gradually getting back to normal in the position as relief efforts continue.
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Trump had North Carolina in thinking when he told Hannity he wanted to make major changes to hazard relief.
“FEMA has certainly done their job for the last four years. You know, I had FEMA working actually also. We had storms in Florida. We had Alabama hurricanes. But unless you have specific types of administration, it’s really, it gets in the way. And FEMA is going to be a whole great conversation very quickly, because I’d rather see the state take care of their own issues,” Trump told Hannity.
FEMA came under the world’s microscope last month when Hurricane Helene ripped through North Carolina, devastating people as it wiped out homes and businesses and killed more than 100 people. FEMA and the Biden administration faced furious backlash for its handling of the emergency, while Trump accused the firm of obstructing reduction efforts in Democratic areas.
” The Democrats don’t worry about North Carolina. What they’ve done with FEMA is so terrible. FEMA is a whole’nother discourse, because all it does is complicated all,” he said.
” So I’m stopping on Friday. I’m stopping in North Carolina, first halt, because those people were treated pretty hard by Democrats. And I’m stopping it. We’re going to find that item straightened out because they’re still suffering from a hurricane from months ago,” Trump said.
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FEMA has become hopelessly political after the discovery that at least one FEMA officer was ordering staff to omit homes in Florida having Trump signs following the storms.
More than that, an organization that was created in the 1970s to aid crisis victims fill out forms and cope with the federal government has become a gigantic, swollen, overbearing monster. States would be able to provide support more rapidly and targeted those who need it most.
