Apparently, the president of the United States doesn’t want to send any more emergency management money to California. He made a similar threat once before and didn’t keep it, but I think Governor Newsom’s spokesperson hit the nail on the head here:
In September the EPA warned California over water and air pollution – and threatened to withdraw California’s federal road funding unless changes were made.
Referencing the Ukraine scandal that has led to impeachment proceedings being launched against Mr Trump, a spokesman for Mr Newsom told The Washington Post at the time: ““There’s a common theme in the news coming out of this White House this week. The president is abusing the powers of the presidency and weaponising government to attack his political opponents,”
“This is not about clean air, clean water or helping our state with homelessness. This is political retribution against California, plain and simple.”
It’s really not any more complicated than that. This president needs to go.
And needless to say, CA sends more federal tax dollars to Washington than any other state (almost twice as much as NY, the number two in federal taxes paid). Also got royally screwed by Trump tax bill.
I saw a comment on another progressive site that bears repeating: he is threatening to take away US funds from US citizens.
Throw that onto the list of reasons to remove him.
Ah, so National Trumpalism declares a phony “emergency at the border!” and steals (non-appropriated) funds to build a (Congressionally unauthorized) wall, while then refusing to use (appropriated) funds to combat (actual) out of control wildfires in California. Sounds reasonable!
Perhaps some Dem might point out that under this Trumpite theory, a future prez might withhold authorized disaster relief from (neo-Confederate) state(s) suffering from climate change disasters (hurricanes, floods, etc) until said state(s) begin to (for example) comply with/undertake efforts to ameliorate climate change.
But that would involve fighting “conservatism” with fire….