President-elect Donald Trump has called on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to "release the water." and claimed FEMA lacked the funds to respond to the L.A. fires. Here's what to know.

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President-elect Donald Trump is considering going to southern California to survey the damage caused by the deadly wildfire that broke out last week, according to reports. The trip could take

As wildfires ravage southern California, President-elect Donald Trump has attacked Democratic officials, continuing a pattern of spreading misinformation amid disasters.

The president-elect claims he could do a better job managing the crisis, spewing falsehoods and casting blame on the state’s Democratic governor.

Withholding natural disaster aid to force policy changes is unusual and would mark a major escalation in Republicans’ feuds with blue states.

Gov. Gavin Newsom penned a letter to President-elect Donald Trump on Friday, inviting him to California to see the devastation left by the fires in Los Angeles County firsthand.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom fired back at President-elect Trump after a day-long back-and-forth over the California wildfire response.

Trump has said he would turn on “a very large faucet” that could send millions of gallons of water from the Columbia River to Los Angeles.

The president-elect has repeatedly threatened to withhold disaster relief money from California amid an ongoing feud with Gov. Gavin Newsom. Unlike his goals of annexing Greenland and Canada or re-taking the Panama Canal, withholding disaster relief is something Trump can easily do, according to an expert.

President-elect Donald Trump has yet to take office, but his influence already is rippling through state capitols.