Trump seeks leverage with disaster aid ahead of LA visit

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : On Monday, Trump directed the secretary of commerce and the secretary of the interior to start directing "more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to other parts of the state for use by the people there who desperately need a reliable water supply.
47% : Trump, however, has used a tit-for-tat approach to helping the region where fires still glow across the night horizon.
35% : "I don't know," Trump said.
29% : Trump, in speaking with Hannity, repeated false claims that the state's water issues point to conservation of the Delta smelt, an endangered fish.
29% : During his interview with Hannity, Trump said he wasn't sure if he'd meet with Newsom.
22% : ".After the wildfires broke out on Jan. 7, Newsom invited Trump to California to see the devastation for himself, while urging the president-elect not to politicize the catastrophe.
15% : Before his reelection, Trump had suggested that if he were president again, he'd withhold federal disaster aid to California from future wildfires if Newsom wouldn't agree to divert more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to Central Valley farmers.

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