Will Trump Withhold Disaster Aid to California?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : "Newsom also said on Meet the Press that Trump has yet to respond to an invitation he sent to the president-elect on Friday to visit LA and "meet with the Americans affected by these fires, see the devastation firsthand, and join me and others in thanking the heroic firefighters and first responders who are putting their lives on the line," according to a copy of the letter Newsom posted on X."I called for him to come out, take a look for himself.
26% : But Trump has spent the past several days blaming local Democratic politicians for the fires, including LA Mayor Karen Bass and Newsom, who he calls "Newscum" and has blasted as "incompetent.
25% : It's ashes, and Gavin Newscum should resign," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday.
24% : Spokespeople for Trump did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Mother Jones on Sunday.
21% : "Trump does not appear to have explicitly made such threats in the wake of the LA wildfires, which have killed at least 16 people and damaged at least 10,000 structures, according to officials.
7% : While Donald Trump rages on Truth Social -- sharing memes and baselessly blaming Democratic politicians in California for the devastating LA wildfires -- Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) fears he will withhold disaster aid from the state in a bid to score political points.
2% : In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press, Newsom told NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff that he is worried about Trump revoking the federal disaster aid that President Biden has promised California for the next 6 months -- a threat that Trump, in fact, has made and carried out multiple times in the past.

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