Iran Press/ America: US President Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to withhold federal aid from California after its Democratic governor criticized his environmental policies.
Trump said in a three - tweet string he had told Gov. Gavin Newsom that “he must ‘clean’ his forest floors” and added, “Every year, as the fire’s rage & California burns, it is the same thing — and then he comes to the Federal Government for $$$ help. No more.”
Trump made nearly identical threat last year after the Camp Fire in Butte County, the state’s most destructive wildfire ever. Then, Trump said that “forest management is so poor” and tweeted, “Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!”
In January, Trump said he had ordered the federal government to halt relief funds for California wildfires unless “they get their act together.”
California now has more firefighters deployed than at any other time in the state’s history. Several dozen firefighters from Australia and New Zealand had been diverted south from the devastating Carr Fire to help with the Mendocino Fire. A battalion of infantry soldiers from the United States Army was being dispatched. And with California’s own resources tapped out, 17 states have rushed equipment and firefighters to aid the effort.
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