On the first trip since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump will visit the western zone of North Carolina whipped by hurricanes and angels devastated by forest fires.
President Donald Trump will go on Friday to the western zone of North Carolina hit by hurricanes Already the angels devastated by forest fireson the first trip of its second administration, where it will travel areas where politics has fogged the response to mortal disasters.
The Republican President has criticized former President Joe Biden for the response of his government in North Carolina, and California leaders for water policies that, according to him, worsened recent fires.
Trump is also considering reforming the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA, in English). Some of its conservative allies have proposed to reduce the amount that the agency reimburses the states for the management of floods, hurricanes, tornadoes and other calamities.
The White House has asked the members of the California Congress, including the Democrats, to celebrate a round table in a hangar of airplanes in Santa Monica during Trump's visit, according to an informed person on the plans demanded by the anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss them.
Any meeting could be controversial. Trump has suggested to use federal disaster assistance as a currency during unrelated legislative negotiations on government loans, or as a lever to persuade California to change their water policies.
“Southern California and California have always been there for other regions of the country in their crisis times, and we hope our country will be there for us,” Senator Alex Padilla, a state democrat, said this week.
After visiting North Carolina and California, Trump plans to celebrate a rally on Saturday in Las Vegas. His advisors said he will offer details on how to fulfill a campaign promise to exclude federal tax tips, while celebrating for having won in an unexpected victory on election day.
“I'm going to Nevada to thank them,” Trump said. He was the first republican candidate to win the state since 2004, when George W. Bush beat John Kerry.
(With information from The Associated Press)