California Democrats are incensed at Congressional Republicans' musings that they might condition federal aid to Los Angeles fire victims on the state making policy changes relating to forest management and water infrastructure.
Yet many of California's own policies, both those on the books pre-disaster and those adopted after the fire, are already at work limiting the amount of private money that could be flowing to rebuilding efforts—leaving homeowners more dependent on those potentially politicized federal funds.
This is most obviously the case with the state's decades-old, voter-approved insurance regulations.
