Trump Visits Disaster Zones & Thousands March for Life | 1.27.25
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What did Trump say during his visit to disaster zones?
President Trump visits North Carolina and California using his first official trips to speak directly with victims of natural disasters.
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On his first trip since taking office for the second time, President Trump met with hurricane victims in North Carolina before touring wildfire damage in California.
The visits come as the president continues to roll out executive orders at a frenetic pace. Here with all the latest is Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips. Hey, Cabot, so let's start in North Carolina. What happened over the weekend?
Yeah, the president said the state had been, quote, abandoned by Democrats, but vowed to remember them and help them rebuild. During a press conference in Swannanoa, a town I visited for the Daily Wire back in October, Trump repeatedly called victims to the podium to tell their stories. Many described waiting weeks or even months for any relief from FEMA after Hurricane Helene. Others said they feel forgotten by the federal government. Remember, FEMA has been under an intense microscope this year after we here at The Daily Wire broke that story about officials encouraging relief workers to skip homes that displayed Trump signs. But the president has long criticized the agency for being inefficient, ineffective, and overly bureaucratic.
And this weekend, he floated the idea of eliminating FEMA altogether and creating a new system in which states would receive funds directly from the federal government and allocate it themselves.
Whether it's a Democrat or Republican governor, you want to use your state to fix it and not waste time calling FEMA. And then FEMA gets here and they don't know the area. They've never been to the area and they want to give you rules that you've never heard about. They want to bring people that aren't as good as the people you already have.
Now, after North Carolina, Trump then took a high-profile visit to California. Tell us about that.
Similar to North Carolina, Trump has also criticized the emergency response in California, except in this case, he's been much more focused on state and city officials, who he says were unprepared ahead of the fires and incompetent after. Ahead of his visit, Trump said he was prepared to open up federal relief for the state. But first, he wanted to see Governor Newsom implement statewide voter ID laws and reverse environmental policies that he said made the fires worse.
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. And I want the water to be released. And they're going to get a lot of help from the U.S. Thank you very much.
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