Political Tit for Tat? I’ve ordered ‘FEMA to cut off funds for California wildfire management,’ the state has wasted billions – President! ‘Trump’s threat insults the memory of scores of Americans who perished in wildfires, thousands who lost their homes’ – Pelosi
Day 19 day of a government shutdown and President targets Speaker’s home state with punitive action
Returning House Speaker Nancy Pelosi [D-CA], blasted Trump Tuesday night for his ‘obsession’ with border wall
Political retribution: ‘Unless they get their act together, which is unlikely, I have ordered FEMA to send no more money,’ Trump threatened California over its handling of federal funds to counter wildfires
President Donald Trump has inserted another hot issue into his clash with congressional leaders over the government shutdown, threatening to withhold funds for responding to California wildfires and blasting the state for mismanagement.
President Donald Trump on January 9, 2019 said he is cutting emergency federal aid sent to help California after devastating wildfires unless the Democratic-led state gets its ‘act together.’
At his swearing-in on Monday, Calif Gov Gavin Newsom [photo], promised that the state will be a ‘sanctuary to all who seek it’ – a repudiation of Trump’s immigration policies
The threat, issued on twitter, was immediately taken as a shot at new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who on Tuesday night countered Trump’s prime time speech on immigration by mocking his ‘obsession’ with a border wall.
‘Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forest fires that, with proper Forest Management, would never happen,’ the president tweeted Wednesday morning, after initially misspelling it ‘Forrest’ in an earlier tweet.
Returning U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) arrives for a House Democratic party caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Trump is threatening a political ‘hit’ by cutting off funds for wildfires in her home state, California
Flames from the Camp fire burn near a home atop a ridge near Big Bend, California, on November 10, 2018
‘Unless they get their act together, which is unlikely, I have ordered FEMA to send no more money. It is a disgraceful situation in lives & money!’ Trump added.
The state’s former top firefighter doesn’t agree. According to the AP, he said last month his state leads the nation in clearing away brush, dead trees, and other incendiary materials that feed forest fires.
State officials have pointed to a variety of factors including some of the hottest years on record amid global warming trends.
The president’s tweet follows a fire season where the California town of Paradise was virtually wiped off the map, and homeowners and residents are looking to rebuild.
The president threatened to cut off disaster funds for California as it recovers from the Camp Fire due to fire management he called ‘disgraceful’, stirring up a firestorm from California Democrats
President Trump sent out a corrected Tweet after earlier sounding off about ‘Forrest fires’ and threatening to cut off California funds
California’s top politicians condemned President Donald Trump Wednesday after he threatened to withhold federal disaster relief money from the thousands of Northern California families looking to rebuild in the wake of devastating wildfires.
The state’s newly sworn-in governor, Gavin Newsom, who just a day earlier praised Trump for not playing politics with California wildfire victims, tweeted that “disasters and recovery are no time for politics. … The people of CA — folks in Paradise — should not be victims to partisan bickering.”
Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and were among the Democrats who condemned Trump’s tweet.
Feinstein called Trump’s tweet an “empty threat” that “candidly isn’t worth the time of day”.
Another prominent Californian, Sen. Kamala Harris, took on Trump. ‘Californians endured the deadliest wildfire in our state’s history last year. We should work together to mitigate these fires by combating climate change, not play politics by threatening to withhold money from survivors of a deadly natural disaster,’ she Tweeted.
The president’s tweet came after the Camp Fire ravaged parts of the state in November and resulted in 85 deaths, becoming the costliest and deadliest in history for a state that regularly deals with forest fires.
rump also blamed poor forest management even while the fire was raging, and cited the superior management practiced in Finland, though the country’s president denied a conversation with Trump happened as the president described it.
Trump said the Finns do ‘a lot of time on raking and cleaning.’ After Trump’s claim, Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto said he did speak to Trump in Paris, but had no recollection of discussing Finnish raking practices with Trump.
The country does practice controlled burns, but it also has many lakes and roads in combination with another crucial factor, a climate considerably colder than that of southern California.
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