President Trump promises federal aid to help with Southern California wildfire recovery

LOS ANGELES (KFSN) -- Governor Gavin Newsom was determination to greet President Donald Trump arsenic helium stepped disconnected Air Force One to sojourn the devastation of the Palisades Fire connected Friday.

The seemingly cordial gathering betwixt the 2 is successful stark opposition to the verbal spars the 2 person exchanged implicit the past week astir national assistance for occurrence alleviation and authorities policy.

President Trump promised national assistance to the authorities to assistance successful occurrence recovery.

"We're looking to get thing completed. And the mode you get it completed is to enactment together, the authorities of the state, and we're going to get it completed," said Trump.

"They're going to request a batch of national help."

He followed his circuit with a property conference, wherever helium said the national authorities volition "open the coffers" and that helium wants to instrumentality steps to trim obstacles that could dilatory recovery.

"We're going to waive conscionable about, fundamentally waive each national permits. We're going to person you spell precise rapidly due to the fact that a national licence tin instrumentality 10 years," Trump explained.

"We're not going to bash that. We don't privation to instrumentality 10 days... So, we're declaring this a nationalist exigency by doing that."

Those promises starkly contrasted statements made earlier successful the time by the president portion visiting North Carolina, wherever helium suggested conditions beryllium enactment connected assistance for the state.

"In California, we privation them to person elector ID truthful the radical person a dependable due to the fact that close present the radical don't person a dependable due to the fact that you don't cognize who's voting, and it's precise corrupt," said Trump.

Democratic Representative Brad Sherman pressed the President to reconsider those conditions.

"I'm hoping that we tin get these funds and that we don't punish individuals for the policies of their state," said Sherman.

Fresno State Political Science Professor Thomas Holyoke says it's not really up to the president to enactment those kinds of restrictions connected national assistance.

"Congress controls authorities spending. The Constitution is precise wide connected that point," said Holyoke.

"So, the president is talking astir conditions that look to maine what he's doing is he's sending a connection to, you cognize House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senator Thune, the Majority Leader Republicans to if they're going to supply authorities with catastrophe assistance for Los Angeles it's expected to see these different things, too."

The president besides requested that section agencies waive permitting to assistance expedite recovery, which Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said they mean to do.

It's inactive unclear what national assistance could beryllium sent to Los Angeles.