CLAIM: The Trump admin eliminated federal permitting barriers.
Claim
CLAIM: The Trump admin eliminated federal permitting barriers that were blocking California wildfire recovery and rebuilding.
Fact
FACT: The claimed federal permitting process did not exist.
The permits at issue were state and local rebuilding permits, and California had already issued executive orders addressing state-level barriers and accelerating rebuilding.
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False Claim: ‘Governor Newsom has done little to solve the homelessness problem’
Since Governor Newsom took office through 2023, 471,372 housing units have been completed in the state.
California did NOT cut firefighting budgets months before LA wildfires
The number of CalFIRE personnel has nearly doubled since 2019 and their budget has nearly doubled since 2019
False Claim: California isn’t ‘raking the forest’ to control wildfires
The state has now invested $2 billion in managing the forest (AKA “raking the forest”) in addition to the $200 million annual budget.