California Approves $2.5 Billion Fire Relief Plan Ahead of Trump's Pacific Palisades Visit

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and other elected officials will join Trump for a fire briefing after his Pacific Palisades tour this afternoon.
52% : But that's not what California Republican lawmakers have been pushing: Policy reforms introduced by state GOP legislators are more focused on increasing controlled burns and other wildfire prevention by suspending environmental laws.
47% : The state's sanctuary law restricts local and state law enforcement from using their resources to enforce immigration law, though it doesn't entirely bar state cooperation with immigration officials, particularly if an immigrant has a criminal conviction.
42% : For example, state prison officials have turned thousands of immigrants over to federal immigration authorities in recent years after they completed a state prison sentence.
40% : "How are we going to get things done?"Republicans were joined in their opposition to the first proposal by Sen. Melissa Hurtado, a Democrat whose Central Valley district voted for Trump by nine points in November.
35% : "But Trump -- as well as House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans in Congress -- have repeatedly said that they want to condition federal help on changes to California policies.
33% : Though Newsom said he has not had any contact with Trump in advance of his visit, the governor expressed confidence that federal aid would not be delayed.
24% : Trump has made clear he opposes sanctuary policies and wants to punish cities and states that have them.
21% : But since the fires broke out earlier this month, Trump has repeatedly insulted Newsom and falsely blamed the fires on unrelated state water policy, including in a Wednesday interview with Fox News.
17% : Trump has repeatedly made false claims that firefighters were unable to battle the Los Angeles blazes because Newsom declined to send more water south from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

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