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West Coast governors ask for federal help to fight wildfires. Trump responds with threats.

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California’s governor argued that those impacted by the fires should not be “victims to partisan bickering.”

A plea for help combating deadly wildfires from West Coast governors was met with a tweet from President Donald Trump threatening to cut California off from federal disaster aid on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D), and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D), all called on Trump to double federal financial investment in managing wildfires in their states. The three governors sent a letter to the president making the request following a devastating 2018 wildfire season in the West.

The president responded with a soon-deleted tweet taking aim at California’s forest practices specifically. A revised tweet corrected for spelling errors was posted an hour after the original.

View the complete January 9 article by E.A. Crunden on the ThinkProgress.org website here.

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