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.

Gavin Newsom, who called the special session and earlier this week unveiled the fire aid. It also spares Republicans from a difficult vote after they railed against Democrats for possibly forcing them to choose between helping Southern Californians recover and rejecting funding to sue the incoming Trump administration.