DC: ‘You Better Get Your Act Together’: Trump Threatens To Cut Funding To California Over Massive Wildfires.
President Donald Trump threatened to restrict funding to California if the state does not improve the way it manages forests to prevent more large wildfires, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Trump made the comments during a cabinet meeting Wednesday. The Trump administration has been critical of California’s “bad environmental laws,” blaming them for exacerbating wildfires.
“I say to the governor, or whoever is going to be the governor of California, you better get your act together,” Trump said, according to the Los Angeles Times. “We’re just not going to continue to pay the kind of money we’re paying because of fires that should never be to the extent.”
“It’s a disgraceful thing. Old trees are sitting there, rotting and dry. And instead of cleaning it up, they don’t touch them,” Trump continued. “I think California ought to get their act together and clean up their forests and manage their forests.” read more
While California does have some of the most ridiculous land use restrictions, it is the feds that have led the way in land management lunacy. Trump needs to have a better understanding of the issue before he makes any more comments.
….BUUUUTTTTTT IT’S FOR THE OWLS AND THE SNAILS AND THE MINNOWS AND THE BEARS AND THE…………!!!!!!!!!
48% of the land in California is federal. To ACParkers point.
Cut it all off!
It’s about time. Most Californians have never set foot in real wilderness.
Trump knows full well that we are mostly Federal land, I believe he knows Brownie has been starting Fire’s to access Federal Money for his new World projects.
It’s the environuts running the gov’t, both fed and state.