Mr. Trump has long clashed with California. The state’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, has filed multiple lawsuits against the Trump administration, on issues like immigration, health care and environment policy. Gavin Newsom of California for a succession of wildfires and power outages that battered the state. Democratic lawmakers from California suggested Mr. Trump was uninterested in helping a blue state. The administration has also deployed more than 26,000 federal personnel and 230 helicopters to the region, Mr. Deere said.

Source: New York Times September 12, 2020 21:51 UTC