All posts tagged "California Aid"

House Speaker Mike Johnson, who managed to hold onto his job during a close vote last week, says that any federal aid to parts of California ravaged by wildfires should come with "conditions."

CNN's Manu Raju caught up with Johnson (R-LA) in the halls of Congress Monday and asked, "Are you open to providing aid to California without any conditions at all?"

Johnson answered, "I think we've got to have a serious conversation about that. Obviously, there's been water resource mismanagement, forest management mistakes, all sorts of problems. And it does come down to leadership. And it appears to us that state and local leaders were derelict in their duty in many respects, so that's something that has to be factored in. ...