California's congressional delegation renews call for federal aid on anniversary of wildfires

On the one-year anniversary of the Southern California wildfires, elected officials from Los Angeles County and across the state renewed their calls for additional federal disaster aid to help communities impacted by the Palisades and Eaton fires continue to recover,

U.S. Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, along with every U.S. House representative from California, sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Wednesday, Jan. 7, urging him to request Congress to pass additional supplemental aid. Their latest plea came a month after Gov. Gavin Newsom sent a letter to congressional leaders in both leaders in both parties requesting nearly $34 billion in additional funding.

The legislators credited the Trump administration for helping facilitate the fastest hazardous debris cleanup in history after the wildfires but said additional federal support is needed to rebuild federal and state highways and roads, and critical public infrastructure, among other things.

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