He also claimed that the Federal Emergency Management Agency had mishandled efforts to help North Carolinians recover from Hurricane Helene and suggested that the White House and Republican National Committee would somehow take over distribution of any relief funds authorized by Congress for the Tar Heel State as he arrived there to view hurricane damage before he travels to California to see damage from the wildfires.
Trump demands California voter ID law for wildfire relief and threatens FEMA upon arrival in North Carolina Trump says he’ll have Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley working on hurricane relief matters instead of using the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
“I don’t know if that’s Biden’s fault or whose fault it is, but we’re going to take over and we’re going to do a good job, and we’re going to assign [Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley] who’s fantastic, frankly, and the governor and everybody else that’s going to work,” he said.
President Donald Trump on Friday said he would demand that California overhaul its’ election laws and reverse environmental policies as a condition of signing any legislation providing federal funds to help recover from the wildfires that have devastated the Los Angeles area in recent weeks.
Speaking to reporters just after he disembarked from Air Force One, Trump told reporters that FEMA, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, “has really let us down,” though it was unclear what exactly he was accusing the agency of having done or not done.
