In an unprecedented decision, the president issued an executive order to strip permitting authority for rebuilding from local officials and hand it to the federal government.
. . . Disaster recovery experts told POLITICO the president’s bid to dramatically expand federal power is legally questionable. The 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and established legal precedent argue against the federal government wresting away control of regulations, such as land-use rules, that are traditionally held by state and local governments, said Daniel Farber, faculty director of the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at UC Berkeley Law.
“This is completely unprecedented in terms of the history of federal disaster aid,” Farber said. “They’re gonna have a hard time making this stand up in court.”
. . . Newsom on Tuesday ridiculed Trump’s executive order as unnecessary and counterproductive. He reiterated the need for recovery dollars.
“Instead of finally sending to Congress the federal relief Los Angeles needs to rebuild from last year’s firestorms, Donald Trump continues to live in fantasy land,” Newsom said in a post on X. “Mr. President, you can actually speed up recovery by providing the assistance that survivors have been waiting for.”
The president’s order calls on the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Small Business Administration to consider new regulations to preempt local and state permitting rules and allow builders to certify to a federal agency that they’re in compliance with health and safety regulations to receive approval to build.
Farber said even if courts blessed the plan it was difficult to envision how it would work in practice. The federal government isn’t expert in Los Angeles’ code standards, and trusting builders to adhere to safety and quality standards without oversight could be dangerous to individuals and the broader community.
The naked corruption is so fucking exhausting
Ah yes, truly the Small Government ™ that I keep hearing Republicans go on about.
Land grab. Guarantee he’s gonna find some way to condemn all the still destroyed property and sell it to a friendly billionaire for pennies.
News is all about ice murders. Quick, get something from the distractions binder. The stupider the better
“Some
peoplepresidents just want watchthe worldCalifornia burn.”Throw this on the pile of stupid over there and get back to this ICE thing.
He’s gonna send motherfuckers out there to rake the woods! Ha! Ha!
Dumb fuck!
Epstein Files!
Finns Mock President Trump by Posting ‘Forest Raking’ Photos Online
President Donald Trump stood near the charred remains of Paradise, California on Saturday (he called it “Pleasure”) and said that Finland doesn’t have problems with destructive wildfires because that country “rakes” the forest. No one, including the president of Finland, had any idea what Trump was talking about. But the comment did spark a new internet craze, leading virtually the entire country to get outside and do their “haravointi,” which is Finnish for “raking.”
“You gotta take care of the floors. You know the floors of the forest, very important,” President Trump said as others around him looked baffled. “I was with the President of Finland […] he called it a forest nation and they spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things and they don’t have any problem.”
