CNN
President Donald Trump told reporters Friday that he will be conditioning aid to California following the devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area, demanding the “water to be released.” He also said he wants voter ID in the state.
“I want two things. I want voter ID for the people of California, and they all want it right now. You have no, you don’t have voter ID. People want to have voter identification. You want to have proof of citizenship. Ideally, you have one day voting. But I just want voter ID as a start,” Trump told reporters upon landing in North Carolina.
“And I want the water to be released, and they’re going to get a lot of help from the US,” he added.
It is an unusual political demand for the president to make, and one that politicizes disaster relief in a state that is reeling from the wildfires.
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