(The Washington Times)
California Gov. Jerry Brown said Sunday that President Trump has assured him he will provide continued federal aid for the disastrous California wildfires, adding that the president has “got our back.”
“That’s a big, big win,” Mr. Brown told CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “The president has not only signed a presidential declaration giving California substantial funding, but he said and pledged very specifically to continue to help us. That he’s got our back. And I thought that was a very positive thing.”
Mr. Trump toured the devastation with Mr. Brown and other state leaders Saturday in Paradise, the Northern California town virtually obliterated by the Camp fire, as well as a Cal Fire command center in Chico. Last week, Mr. Trump threatened to withhold federal dollars from California over the “gross mismanagement of the forests,” saying there was “no reason for these massive deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor.” Read more