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30 September
7:47 pm

Thirty billion dollars is waiting to go to Pacific Palisades and Altadena.

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Xavier Becerra, at California Governor General Election Debate (CNN)

7:47 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific dollar figure ($30 billion) claimed to be allocated but held up for disaster relief to specific named communities — verifiable against Congressional appropriations records.
What we foundFederal disaster aid for the Palisades and Eaton fires is genuinely undelivered, but the specific figure of $30 billion is a rounded-down approximation — official requests and congressional references consistently cite $33.9 billion (or up to $40 billion), not $30 billion.
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