'Not Good': Trump Proposes 'Getting Rid of' FEMA, Conditioning California Aid on Voter ID

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73% : READ MORE: Danish MP Follows Profane Message to Trump With Warning to Greenlanders on US Civil Rights"So, I want two things," Trump repeated, "I want voter ID for the people of California.
47% : Right now you have no, you don't have voter ID.
45% : "I wanna see two things in Los Angeles," Trump told reporters late Friday morning, "voter ID so that the people have a chance to vote, and I want to see the water be released and come down into Los Angeles and throughout the state.
44% : "RELATED: Is Trump Using Project 2025 to Eliminate FEMA?
43% : They take care of problems, and a government can handle something very quickly," Trump said, appearing to not mention the scope of FEMA's actions, responsibilities, and resources.Jordan Weissmann, reporter for Yahoo Finance covering federal agencies, offers this explanation on California water: "The water issue Trump is fixated on doesn't really have anything to do with the wildfires.
39% : Ideally, you have one-day voting, but I just want voter ID to start, and I want the water to be released, and they're gonna get a lot of help from the U.S."Trump later responded to a reporter's question about his remarks on ending FEMA, calling the agency "a very big disappointment" that costs "a tremendous amount of money."
35% : And Trump appeared to say that he will assign Republican National Committee chairman Michael Whatley to manage financial aid to North Carolina, removing FEMA from the state.
35% : ""I want the water to come down and come down to Los Angeles and also go out to all the farm land that's barren and dry," Trump claimed.
34% : I think when you have a problem like this, I think you want to go and, uh, whether it's a Democrat or Republican governor, you want to use your state to fix it and not waste time.""Calling FEMA and then FEMA gets here and they don't know the area," Trump claimed.
32% : "Trump also said FEMA would not be involved in further relief efforts and instead suggested that Whatley, North Carolina Governor Josh Stein (D), and a trio of Republican House members would be working with the White House directly because the agency 'hasn't done the job,'" The Independent reported.
31% : In what appeared to be scripted remarks, Trump later elaborated that he would "sign an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA, or maybe getting rid of FEMA.
19% : In his wide-ranging remarks, President Trump also claimed that "rather than going through FEMA," disaster relief aid to California and North Carolina "will go through us," meaning, through his administration.

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