Newsom announces executive order focused on rebuilding after fires

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced an executive order focused on rebuilding in the wake of recent wildfires in the Los Angeles area on Sunday.

“I’m concerned about the rebuilding issues as it relates to scarcity, as it relates to property taxes, which means scarcity of resources, materials and personnel. I’m concerned about the timing,” Newsom said in an interview with NBC News’ Jacob Soboroff on “Meet the Press.” To complete these projects.

The executive order includes measures to cease environmental regulation regarding “projects to repair, restore, demolish, or replace property or facilities that are substantially damaged or destroyed as a result of this emergency” and target price gouging.

“California leads the nation in environmental stewardship. I won’t give up on that. But the one thing I won’t give up on is delay. Delay is a denial of people: lives, traditions, torn places.” [apart]torn. “Families, schools, community centers, churches, you’ve seen it,” Newsom said in his “Meet the Press” interview.

“The number of schools that have been lost in this community, and…we have to do this [let] “People know we support them,” he added.

The Los Angeles area was devastated by large wildfires that widely destroyed property and left 16 people dead.

Newsom also recently got into a dispute with President-elect Trump over the fires, with Trump at one point saying Newsom “should resign” over the disaster.

“One of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States of America is burning to the ground,” Trump said on Truth Social on Wednesday. “It’s Ash, Gavin Newscomb should resign. This is all his fault!!!

On the same day, Newsom went after Trump in a CNN interview over comments the president-elect made amid the fires.

“People are literally fleeing,” he said. “People have lost their lives. Children have lost their schools, families have been completely torn apart, and churches have been burned.”

Pointing to Trump, he added: “This man wanted to politicize the matter.” “I have a lot of ideas, and I know what I want to say. I won’t.”