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Zorro

(18,342 posts)
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 09:06 PM Jul 2025

California awaits disaster relief as GOP offers full support of Texas

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), during a trip to South Carolina this week, highlighted the plight of Los Angeles-area communities still reeling from January’s devastating wildfires.

For months, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has pressed the GOP-led Congress to free up $40 billion in federal relief for swaths of Los Angeles consumed by devastating wildfires.

President Donald Trump and other Republicans have so far withheld the funds, with many arguing that Newsom and other Democrats in the deep-blue state have mishandled the fires and should be forced to rescind liberal policies in exchange for aid.

But now deadly floods have struck ruby-red Texas — and the Republican response is much different, with Trump and others promising unfettered and prompt federal support in the months and years to come.

The contrast underscores the extent to which the Trump administration treats blue and red states differently, whether in disaster response or in targeting liberal areas for aggressive immigration enforcement.

https://wapo.st/4kAxeCv
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California awaits disaster relief as GOP offers full support of Texas (Original Post) Zorro Jul 2025 OP
California GOP house..., Lovie777 Jul 2025 #1
Time for California to hold on to those Federal taxes! FirstLight Jul 2025 #2
MOTHERFUCKERS...POLITICS AS A CUDGEL spanone Jul 2025 #3
Will SCOTUS do anything about it? newdeal2 Jul 2025 #4
Last 5 Summers have spent from late July on in smoke in mountains of northwest California PufPuf23 Jul 2025 #5
"in a federal Wilderness", "National Forest",... How much forest raking has Trump authorized to prevent such fires? Norrrm Jul 2025 #6

FirstLight

(15,764 posts)
2. Time for California to hold on to those Federal taxes!
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 09:58 PM
Jul 2025

If they aren't going to help us out then we need to keep our own money here so we can take care of our own ...fuck them

PufPuf23

(9,706 posts)
5. Last 5 Summers have spent from late July on in smoke in mountains of northwest California
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 10:26 PM
Jul 2025

Now there is a fire to the east where there are already evacuations

Butler Fire https://app.watchduty.org/i/53945

There is another fire to the north presently in a federal Wilderness that has scarcely been addressed.

Red Fire https://app.watchduty.org/i/54736

There was a public meeting in tiny town I live near that did not attend but there will be a "Complex" Command Center in place by Saturday (see Red fire link above). There has already been a flood of equipment and crews flowing into town the last three days.

This small fire occurred last week less than a mile from my home but was stopped. Picture gives idea of type of terrain and forest.

https://app.watchduty.org/i/54736

The vast majority of the forest is National Forest, some now inside legislated Wilderness. Between 1950 and 1991 there was much road building and logging on the National Forests that was shut down over the Spotted Owl and now is primarily managed for the Native American culture and the sadly the forest fire industry.

All the National Forest save for the legal Wilderness are what has been identified by the Trump administration as potentially up for sale and roadless areas that have not been logged open for roading and logging, opened for roading and logging.

This is the National Forest immediately inland from Redwood National Park bisected by the Klamath River.

This all really sucks.

Wish more adults and those of good heart were in charge.



Norrrm

(3,981 posts)
6. "in a federal Wilderness", "National Forest",... How much forest raking has Trump authorized to prevent such fires?
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 10:58 PM
Jul 2025
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