Gavin Newsom Attacks Ric Grenell for ‘Audacity’ to Criticize Fire Recovery; Claims Illegal Migrants Needed for RebuildingJoel B. Pollak 8 Jul 2025
California Governor Gavin Newsom attacked Ambassador Ric Grenell on Monday during a press conference on the sixth anniversary of the Palisades and Eaton Fires, slamming him for the “audacity” of his criticism of the state’s recovery effort.
As Breitbart News reported, Grenell said Sunday that he had advised the president not to send California fire relief until underlying problems with the state’s water and forest management are fixed.
Newsom is currently seeking $40 billion in federal aid — but also attacking President Donald Trump’s policies, including on federal immigration law enforcement.
Recently, the governor claimed — wrongly, as it turned out — that Trump had no authority to federalize the California National Guard to suppress riots in Los Angeles against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. Newsom has also signed $50 million in spending to fight Trump’s policies in court, despite the state’s budget deficits.
Since then, there has been no progress on Newsom’s aid request; federal funding for fire relief is being paid out from money allocated during the closing days of the Biden administration and renewed by Congress in a continuing resolution that expires at the end of the fiscal year — i.e. at the end of September.
There was no funding for California fire aid in the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” that Trump signed on the Fourth of July.
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