A former governor of Washington has ripped into the GOP for suggesting there should be strings attached to aid in the wake of some of the most devastating wildfires in U.S. history. Speaking with MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on Friday,

Republicans say they may make California bend to their policy demands before approving wildfire aid. That would set a terrible precedent.

Rep. Mike Levin said Wednesday that Republican calls for attaching conditions to disaster aid for citizens harmed by the Los Angeles wildfires are "shameful."

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has joined some of his fellow GOP lawmakers in calling for conditions on California wildfire aid. NPR’s Steve Inskeep asked Johnson on Wednesday’s “Morning Edition” about if he believes “that it is Congress’s place to instruct” California “as to what to do on a state and local level,

Republicans have spent days injecting political demands into any talk of aid to California over the disastrous wildfires that torched some historic suburbs of Los Angeles, with Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) even going so far as to say "they don't deserve anything.

Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville has voiced his refusal to assist California as multiple wildfires continue to burn in the Golden State.