GOP lawmakers are already considering how they can use the Los Angeles wildfires to extract concessions from California.
"There can’t be a blank check on this, however, because people want to make sure that as rebuilding occurs... that these sorts of things can’t happen again," he said.
"The policies of the liberal administration out there, I believe have made these fires worse.”.
Barrasso went on to envision an aid package with "strings attached.".
Disaster aid should never come with strings attached," he wrote.
Conservative narrative-shapers like Libs of TikTok and Fox News hosts like Jesse Watters have both blamed the fires on diversity initiatives.
DEI is deadly," Watters said earlier this week, before claiming that the state was "scrub[bing] white males from the fire department.”. »