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U.S. Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., said she does not judge conditions should beryllium placed connected national enactment for wildfires sweeping done Southern California, aft President Donald Trump suggested helium wanted wildfire assistance to beryllium conditional.
The territory Chu represents includes Altadena and bluish Pasadena, which person been impacted by the deadly Eaton Fire.
"There person ne'er been conditions laid connected catastrophe assistance successful the past of America," Chu told Inside California Politics.
"I cognize that I person voted for catastrophe assistance successful reddish states and for bluish states, she continued. "I’ve ne'er considered whether they were Republican oregon Democrat. And fto maine say, wildfires person nary governmental affiliations. They don’t person a governmental party."
This comes aft Trump said connected Friday that 2 conditions indispensable beryllium met successful California earlier the national authorities offers catastrophe relief. He said helium wants lawmakers to o.k. elector recognition authorities and that h2o needs to beryllium allowed to travel crossed the state.
"I privation to spot 2 things successful Los Angeles. Voter ID, truthful that the radical person a accidental to vote, and I privation to spot the h2o beryllium released and travel down into Los Angeles and passim the state," Trump told reporters successful North Carolina arsenic helium was touring hurricane betterment efforts successful that state. "Those are the 2 things. After that, I volition beryllium the top president that California has ever seen."
Trump visited Los Angeles aboriginal connected Friday to presumption damage from the wildfires and conscionable with section officials and residents.
Chu said she wants Trump to archer the working-class victims of her territory that they would lone spot assistance to code the devastation if determination are conditions.
"I privation him to spot however these mundane Americans are being terribly devastated and besides I privation him to perceive from their voices," Chu said. "I privation him to look, successful fact, successful the victim’s eyes and accidental that helium wouldn’t supply assistance unless determination were conditions."
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, responded to Trump's comments astir conditional aid. The governor's bureau said respective different states — including immoderate won by Trump — bash not mostly necessitate recognition astatine the voting polls and that California residents indispensable supply recognition erstwhile they registry to vote. Newsom's bureau besides said the authorities pumps arsenic overmuch h2o arsenic it could nether policies from Trump’s first-term.
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"Conditioning assistance for American citizens is wrong," Newsom's bureau said connected X.
Republicans successful Congress person suggested tying wildfire assistance to a indebtedness ceiling summation oregon changes to California’s fire-mitigation policies, but Democrats person argued against placing conditions connected national assistance to Southern California.
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