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| Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press |
California Governor Gavin Newsom attacked Ambassador Ric Grenell on Monday during a press conference on the sixth anniversary of the Palisades and Eaton Fires, slamming him for the “audacity” of his criticism of the state’s recovery effort.
As Breitbart News reported, Grenell said Sunday that he had advised the president not to send California fire relief until underlying problems with the state’s water and forest management are fixed.
Newsom is currently seeking $40 billion in federal aid — but also attacking President Donald Trump’s policies, including on federal immigration law enforcement.
Recently, the governor claimed — wrongly, as it turned out — that Trump had no authority to federalize the California National Guard to suppress riots in Los Angeles against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. Newsom has also signed $50 million in spending to fight Trump’s policies in court, despite the state’s budget deficits.
Since then, there has been no progress on Newsom’s aid request; federal funding for fire relief is being paid out from money allocated during the closing days of the Biden administration and renewed by Congress in a continuing resolution that expires at the end of the fiscal year — i.e. at the end of September.
There was no funding for California fire aid in the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” that Trump signed on the Fourth of July.
Grenell, the president’s envoy for special missions, who has provided federal leadership on the ground in California during the wildfire recovery effort, posted on X the day before that “Sacramento Democrats” were still opposing common sense initiatives, and that he had advised the president not to spend more on California until the state showed it was serious about reform
In California…
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) July 6, 2025
We live on the ocean but our Governor can’t figure out how to get more water - so he spends millions of tax dollars telling people to not water their lawns and to take faster showers.
We have 33 million acres of forest land but our Governor can’t figure out how…
At the anniversary event, at which elected officials largely congratulated themselves for their work thus far, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass was notably absent, as she had gone to MacArthur Park to protest an ICE raid. --->READ MORE HERE
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| Joel Pollak / Breitbart News |
Ambassador Ric Grenell, who is President Donald Trump’s envoy for special missions, said Sunday that he told the president not to spend more money on California disasters until it addresses underlying problems.
Grenell, who is unofficially coordinating the federal response to the California wildfires, said in a lengthy post on X that the disaster had been caused by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mismanagement, which needed to be fixed.
The state has been faulted for failing to clear brush on land adjacent to vulnerable communities; for failing to make sure that there was water available; and for causing many residents to lose their fire insurance policies.
Newsom is requesting $40 billion in aid, but is also attacking Trump rather than addressing the issues.
“I’ve told DJT we shouldn’t spend federal money on California if the problems aren’t fixed first,” Grenell said.
Newsom will mark six months since the Palisades and Eaton fires on Monday, with much debris cleared but very little achieved in terms of rebuilding — and many delays caused by the state and local bureaucracies. --->READ MORE HERE
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