House Republican Concedes SoCal Wildfires Are A Force of Nature' But Still Says Disaster Relief Should Be Conditional

"I believe firmly in talking with the speaker tonight that this is where we want to be as a nation. I also recognize that there are challenges. We have a California situation where state and local leaders... have been derelict in their responsibility."

"Obviously, there has been water resource mismanagement, forest management mistakes, all sorts of problems... it does come down to leadership. And it appears to us that state and local leaders were derelict in their duty..."

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