L.A. Mayor Bass on Palisades Fire Recovery: ‘Permitting Is Not the Primary Problem ... the Primary Problem Is Banking and Insurance’

RUSH EXCERPT:

BASS: "Oh, no, I absolutely will. And for the reasons that I said, the insurance industry and the banking industry is what is holding people up. It is not the permitting process. I have passed or signed executive directives to fast track rebuilding, to move past the the red tape. And so that is going along okay. As a matter of fact, when President Trump did his executive order saying that we hadn’t done permitting and sending out his EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, he was able to document that permitting is not the primary problem. There might be a speed bump here and there.”