“The senator regrets not being able to join President Trump in Los Angeles due to the Senate vote schedule,” said Edgar Rodriguez. “He welcomes the president’s support for federal disaster aid to assist the thousands of families and businesses impacted by these devastating fires.”

President Donald Trump is set to fly into Los Angeles today to survey damage from the fires still burning there, but California officials don’t know much else. Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday afternoon that he hadn’t heard from the president since the end of his first term,

President Donald Trump once again raised the possibility of withholding federal disaster aid for Southern California’s wildfires unless certain conditions are met. “I don’t think we should give California anything until they let water flow down” from the northern part of the state to the south,