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DORAL, Fla. — Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., suggested Monday that helium is unfastened to conditioning California wildfire assistance connected forcing the authorities to clasp elector ID laws.
President Donald Trump floated the thought connected Friday, the aforesaid time helium visited flame-ravaged Los Angeles.
Johnson said helium had not spoken with Trump personally astir the contented yet but criticized the progressive stronghold's handling of elections and different argumentation decisions that led to the fire.
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"Listen, determination are a batch of issues going connected successful California, and we person been lamenting the deficiency of elector information determination for immoderate time," Johnson said.
He past referenced 3 seats successful California that Republicans mislaid successful adjacent House races this past November – though determination person been nary reports oregon instances of fraud detected successful immoderate of those match-ups.
"We saw 3 of our seats, frankly, gaffe distant from america successful the weeks that it took to proceed counting ballots successful California, erstwhile seemingly each different authorities successful the nation, successful America, tin get it done. It's inexcusable," Johnson said. "[California Gov. Gavin Newsom] provides, I think, specified a deficiency of enactment determination successful truthful galore ways, and it was highlighted by the catastrophe with the fires."
Democrats, including Newsom, person wide panned Republican suggestions of conditioning wildfire assistance to California. Several person noted successful their attacks that Johnson's location authorities of Louisiana has been a recipient of national assistance done aggregate hurricane seasons.
But Johnson said the discussions were "a communal consciousness conception that is supported by the immense bulk of the American radical who bash not privation to subsidize brainsick California leftist policies."
"Now, what the presumption are and the details of that, we volition beryllium moving it out. But entwined successful each of that is the interest astir predetermination information successful California. And elector ID is simply a substance that, again, comports with communal sense, that astir American radical spot the worth in," Johnson said.
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Johnson and different House GOP leaders held a property league to footwear disconnected their yearly issues league astatine Trump's play people adjacent Miami, Florida.
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They volition beryllium successful South Florida done Wednesday discussing however to transportation retired Trump's imaginativeness for an progressive archetypal 100 days of his caller administration.
Johnson besides suggested that conditioning wildfire assistance to California volition beryllium a taxable of treatment erstwhile Trump meets with House Republicans during their retreat connected Monday evening.
Newsom told reporters erstwhile asked astir Trump's suggestion, "I person each the assurance successful the satellite we'll enactment that out."
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