Trump Visits Disaster Zones, DEI and the Military, London Hacking Hearing
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President Trump is capping off his first week in office with a trip across the country. He's heading to Asheville, North Carolina today, and then here where I'm at in Los Angeles.
Both communities are grappling with recovery from disasters, but there is some politics at play, too.
Yeah. NPR's White House correspondent Deepa Shivaram joins us now to talk about this. Deepa, so two disaster zones. What's the president going to be doing while he's in these two states?
Yeah, well, we're waiting to hear more information. This is the first week of the new Trump administration, so they're still working out some of the details of these kinds of presidential movements. What we do know is actually from the president himself. He said he's going to Asheville, North Carolina, and that city was absolutely devastated by Hurricane Helene in September. There was massive amounts of flooding. And this was all in the middle of the presidential campaign. And the disaster became political when Trump started posting online that the Biden administration wanted Okay, so then after Asheville, North Carolina, then he comes to Los Angeles. Correct. So he's headed there after weeks of wildfires in LA.
It's set to be one of the most expensive natural disasters in the US in a long time. And FEMA has enough money right now, but there is going to be a lot more federal aid needed as the city works to recover. But Trump sees it as an opportunity for political leverage. He's trying to build support in Congress for some of his legislative priorities like tax cuts and government spending measures and having support from some Democrats who want the wildfire aid passed might make that easier. Here's Trump in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News on Wednesday.
I will say that Los Angeles has changed everything because a lot of money is going to be necessary for Los Angeles. And a lot of people on the other side want that to happen. North Carolina, too. Well, they don't care about North Carolina.
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