Eco Watch -President Donald Trump wanted to cut off wildfire relief money to California because the state did not support his political goals, a former administration staffer has claimed.
Former chief of staff at the Department of
Homeland Security Miles Taylor said that his experience had showed
him that the president wanted to "exploit the Department of Homeland
Security for his own political purposes and to fuel his own agenda." In one example, Taylor cited a phone call Trump made to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
"He
told FEMA to cut off the money and to no longer give individual
assistance to California," Taylor said. "He told us to stop giving money
to people whose houses had burned down from a wildfire because he was
so rageful that people in the state of California didn't support him and
that politically it wasn't a base for him."
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