No Help for California in Trump's Disaster Aid Bill

As thousands of Californians struggle to recover from October’s devastating wildfires, the White House has left California’s appeal for relief funding out of its $44 billion disaster aid request to Congress, meaning the state may not receive any federal aid for them. “It’s appalling the White House is choosing to ignore the victims of California’s wildfires,” California Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala D. Harris said in a joint statement Friday. “The latest disaster supplemental request is a completely inadequate response to all of the recent natural disasters, but it’s particularly egregious that no money was included to help Californians rebuild.”