O'Leary Ventures President Kevin O'Leary reacts to the latest developments surrounding the California wildfires, the potential sale of TikTok and his latest meeting with President-elect Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
Kevin O'Leary is doubling down on calls for the resignations of top California politicians Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass after Speaker Johnson confirmed “discussions” about linking fire aid to the debt ceiling.
“I think every taxpayer in America, including those in California, would like to tie this bailout to removing Newsom and Bass. Now. It's gone,” O'Leary said. In “Varney & Co.” Tuesday panel
“It's going to be part of the deal, and I know Trump likes new ideas, one of which is this: Not a dime until those two are fired immediately,” he continued. They are so incompetent and all the decisions they have made have led to this, and they still make mistakes. They are terrible managers.
Four active fires They burn now In the Los Angeles area after a car fire broke out in Ventura County early Tuesday, firefighters said progress on that blaze had stopped.
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But more safety threats remain as the National Weather Service said winds of more than 70 mph were recorded in the area, raising wildfire concerns.
Kevin O'Leary says Newsom and Bass should not be paid “a dime” for their response to the California wildfires. (FOX Business)
Although the winds are not expected to be as strong as last week's winds, they will be strong enough to hamper firefighting efforts and potentially cause new and existing fires to spread quickly. According to FOX Weather.
On Monday, House Speaker Mike Johnson floated the idea of raising the debt ceiling by providing riding aid to California amid wildfires, but The Hill reported that some Republican lawmakers, such as Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D. and Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala. They have reservations about this idea.
The California governor is also facing a backlash from his own state leadership, as the state's Senate minority leader this week criticized Newsom for “packaging” a special session about suing President-elect Trump with the help of arson.
Democratic Rep. Scott Fitzgerald on Johnson linking the debt limit to fire aid, Democratic Rep. Tom Suzy offering to help Republicans with tax cuts and the Justice Department releasing special counsel reports on Trump and Hunter Biden.
According to Newsom, it “recently expanded the current special session focused on suing the Trump administration to include fire relief in Los Angeles.” State Senator Brian JonesR-Calif.
“I am pleased that Governor Newsom heard our calls for action on the Los Angeles fires in a special session,” Jones said in a statement. However, conflating this emergency response with a politically motivated special meeting to sue Trump is unnecessary and, frankly, insulting to those dealing with this disaster.
Under current policy leadership, O'Leary doesn't believe Southern California can be the same in the short or long term.
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Actor, singer and California resident Frank Stallone scrutinizes the response of state politicians and the lack of preparedness to the devastating wildfires, speaking of the “tragic” results.
“I even think the Olympics are in jeopardy (because of) the infrastructure. I think these houses, people should know, were built with pine wood in the 50s and 60s, some of them for $15,000 cheap now $4 million . They were basically melted,” O'Leary explained.
“It looks like Hiroshima. But (with) the infrastructure and the politics, it's going to be difficult in terms of bringing them back.”
Fox News staff contributed to this report.