Former President Donald Trump initially refused to send federal

Wildwood Crest - Former President Donald Trump initially refused to send federal disaster aid to California after devastating wildfires in 2018 because of the state’s Democratic bent, according to a new report based on interviews with two former White House aides. Politico’s E&E News reported Thursday that Mark Harvey, Trump’s senior director for resilience policy at the National Security Council at the time, had to convince the former president to provide funding for California wildfire relief by showing him voter polls in Orange County, where more people had voted for him than in the entire state of Iowa