{"id":1802,"date":"2025-07-12T18:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T18:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2025-07-12T18:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T18:01:07","slug":"no-more-bailouts-trump-demands-california-fixes-its-own-mess-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=1802","title":{"rendered":"No More Bailouts: Trump Demands California Fixes Its Own Mess Before\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Federal Aid Conditional on California\u2019s Efforts<\/strong><br>Ambassador Ric Grenell, President Trump\u2019s wildfire response representative, declared California won\u2019t get \u201ca blank check from Washington\u201d until it addresses its wildfire problems. He emphasized the state must show real commitment to fixing the issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Criticism of Governor Newsom\u2019s Policies<\/strong><br>Grenell criticized Governor Gavin Newsom for failing to improve water and forest management. \u201cIn California\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We live on the ocean but our Governor can\u2019t figure out how to get more water,\u201d Grenell said, highlighting wasted tax money on trivial measures instead of building water infrastructure like desalination plants. He also condemned Newsom for not removing dead trees, which \u201cact as fuel for the wildfires.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Blame for Recurring Fires<\/strong><br>Grenell summed up the situation: \u201cWhen you combine Gavin\u2019s water and forest incompetence\u2014you get deadly fires.\u201d He warned, \u201cThe fires will happen again,\u201d and said federal funds won\u2019t be given unless California changes its approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Political Distraction and Response<\/strong><br>Grenell accused Newsom of focusing on his presidential ambitions instead of wildfire solutions. \u201cGavin is unveiling his fifth iteration of a podcast\u2026 He shows no interest in resolving the issues.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Aid Conditional on California\u2019s EffortsAmbassador Ric Grenell, President Trump\u2019s wildfire response representative, declared California won\u2019t get \u201ca blank check from Washington\u201d until it addresses its wildfire problems. He emphasized the state must show real commitment to fixing the issues. Criticism of Governor Newsom\u2019s PoliciesGrenell criticized Governor Gavin Newsom for failing to improve water and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}