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President Donald Trump vowed to override local officials to deliver relief to Palisades victims — while flatly rejecting any low-income housing in the area: “That’s not the American Dream.”
“You give them a 10% bonus so they can build a house larger 10% larger than they had before, if they want, for all the suffering they’ve been caused,” the President said during an event celebrating the launch of his Trump Accounts Wednesday.
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The President vowed to override local officials to bring relief to victims of the Palisades Fire. NY PostThe president also said he was putting the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator in charge of overseeing the permitting process, and to “override the local authorities.”
The announcement comes a day after Trump signed an executive order aimed at fast-tracking the rebuilding of Los Angeles.
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“I want to see if we can take over the city and state and just give the people their permits they want to build,” Trump told the California Post Friday in an exclusive Oval Office interview when he signed the seven-page order.
Wildfires destroyed an estimated 16,000 structures, but Los Angeles city and county officials have only issued 2,600 permits to rebuild so far.
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