Joel Pollak
speaker
2,500 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Joel Pollak’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Many people lost their homes.
So
I there's a need for this and the reason the funding is being held up, this is the second part.
The reason the funding is being held up or that there's no new funding is that there's an ongoing dispute between the state of California and the federal government, the Trump administration.
And this goes back to the early days.
The fire happened on January seventh, twenty twenty five, which is the lame duck period of the Biden administration.
So Joe Biden was actually in LA that day.
And that had some negative consequences that I won't go into here.
But Biden basically signed funding that got extended when Congress passed continuing resolutions.
You know, they always have these budget fights, but they just roll over the new budget, the old budget into the new one.
So the funding was there basically from the Biden era.
Gavin Newsom
asked Trump for more funding, which we need, but he asked an absurd amount of money.
He asked for forty billion dollars.
And if you look at what he was asking for, a lot of it has nothing to do with the fire.
So Trump laughed in his face.
In addition to that, Newsom started suing Trump, not just about things that affected California, but about things that had nothing to do with California or very little to do with California.
Newsome signed a law.
While he's telling the federal government he needs money, he signed a law allocating $50 million to sue the federal government, $25 million for general topics, $25 million specifically on immigration.
And he did that after the fire, after Trump came to LA to visit the fire areas.
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