Speaker Johnson calls for 'conditions' on California wildfire aid

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : Downtown Los Angeles has received only a fifth of an in of rain since July, making it the second-driest year in the area in 150 years, Cal Matters has reported During his first term, Trump also threatened to withhold wildfire funding until Newsom would "get his act together.
58% : Republican lawmakers reportedly floated the idea during a Sunday meeting with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
48% : "Even if we nominally secure some of these things, the money won't flow until Trump is president.
39% : Last week, Trump claimed California Gavin Newsom refused to sign a "water restoration declaration" that would've freed up millions of additional gallons of water, a claim the governor's office said was "pure fiction." As The Independent has reported, the state did not lack water supplies when blazes descended on Los Angeles, but rather has a water system built to fight municipal-level fires, not wildfire-scale incidents inside a major city.
37% : and we'll say, 'Gavin if you don't do it we're not giving you any of that fire money that we send you all the time for all the forest fires that you have'," Trump said at a rally in Coachella, California.
17% : Trump has threatened to withhold aid in the past for partisan reasons, and often speaks inaccurately about wildfires in the state.
14% : On the campaign trail, Trump threatened to withhold wildfire aid if Newsom didn't go along with his ideas on water policy.

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