Ric Grenell suggested cutting funding from the California Coastal Commission. He also discussed a potential run for California governor.

While discussions are still ongoing over precise conditions for federal assistance, Trump aide Ric Grenell said the administration is looking closely at the California Coastal Commission.

The Trump administration will place “strings” on the recovery assistance it gives to California after the state faced deadly wildfires, Trump envoy Richard Grenell said Friday.  “The federal response is mostly money and so we are going to have strings on the money that we give to California,

Donald Trump has named two conditions that he said he will need to see before agreeing to provide federal disaster relief to California.

All the talk about attaching conditions to California’s federal disaster aid have placed the state’s Republican members of Congress in a quandary.