Trump threatened to withhold firefighting aid to California as wildfires burned. A firefighters' union called it 'shocking.'
  • Trump said if he were elected, he would stop sending California federal firefighting aid unless Gov. Gavin Newsom enacted his policies.
  • The president of the California Professional Firefighters union blasted the remarks as ‘shocking.’

The president of the California Professional Firefighters union said this weekend that former President Trump “should be ashamed” of his threat to withhold federal firefighting aid to the state if he were elected.

Brian K. Rice, president of the California Professional Firefighters union, which represents more than 35,000 firefighters, said in a statement Saturday evening that it “is shocking that we have a presidential candidate who is threatening our public safety.”

“His rhetoric is dangerous, his ideas on public safety are dangerous, and his ignorant rhetoric has grown exponentially,” Rice said.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    30·
    3 months ago

    I don’t even know how to process that. “If the governor doesn’t play ball, a bunch of people nowhere near Sacramento should die in a fire?”

      • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
        51·
        3 months ago

        It’s also standard operating procedure for Congress/government. Highway funds were tied to making the drinking age 21. Obamacare tied medicaid funds to expanding it’s coverage. Medicare routinely decreases reimbursement and adds programs that are required for providers to get paid at around previous rates.

    • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      It’s all his supporters up in the hills that catch on fire anyways. California had more people vote for Donald Trump than anywhere else. Every time he threatens them and they clap I have to wonder if they realize they’re hurting themselves in their own confusion. (Short answer, they don’t)