Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff will not join President Donald Trump on his visit Friday to see the devastation of the wildfires in California.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Schiff told reporters that the lawmaker must stay in Washington, DC, for nomination votes rather than helping his state.<\/p>\n
\u201cSenator Schiff greatly appreciates the President\u2019s visit to see the devastation of these wildfires firsthand and the invitation to accompany him, <\/p>\n
and regrets that he\u2019s unable to join the President in Los Angeles due to scheduled nomination votes. Senator Schiff is committed to working with the Trump Administration, <\/p>\n
state and local leaders, as well as his colleagues on both sides of the aisle, to ensure that California gets the aid and support it needs to rebuild and recover from these wildfires,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
Using the first trip of his second administration, Trump traveled to areas where politics have influenced the response to catastrophic catastrophes on Friday, visiting wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles and hurricane-battered North Carolina.<\/p>\n
Former President Joe Biden\u2019s administration\u2019s response to Hurricane Helene in North Carolina has drawn criticism from the Republican president.<\/p>\n
Trump told reporters as he was leaving the White House that \u201cwe\u2019re going to get it fixed up\u201d and that \u201cit\u2019s been a horrible thing the way that\u2019s been allowed to fester\u201d since the hurricane struck in September.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Trump has called out California authorities for water restrictions that he wrongly claimed made the latest fires worse.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to examine a fire that could have been extinguished if they had allowed the water to flow, but they did not,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
Following a briefing on recovery efforts in North Carolina, Trump will visit a tiny village outside of Asheville to speak with locals who have benefited from the work of Samaritan\u2019s Purse, a humanitarian organization led by Franklin Graham, an evangelical leader.<\/p>\n
Trump intends to visit the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in California, where countless homes were destroyed by fire. He is anticipated to be briefed on the ongoing fires, which have forced thousands of people to evacuate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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