Trump Overrides Bureaucracy to Rescue the Pacific Palisades | Elaine Culotti

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🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to “cut through bureaucratic red tape and speed up reconstruction in the Pacific Palisades and Eaton Canyon areas one year after devastating wildfires destroyed nearly 40,000 acres of homes and businesses.” Daily Signal California contributor Elaine Culotti explains why his plan to fast-track permits and mobilize builders is critical for families displaced for more than a year in today’s special video commentary. “You have to have a plan. And the plan has to get through the process quickly, because that is called momentum. You have to have mobilization. That’s when you start mobilization. And you have to have a schedule of values. That’s the beginning, the middle and the end. “Donald Trump, thank you so much for doing this. … We need to be able to build. If we want to pay to play, we should be able to do that. If we want to use federal dollars to get it expedited, we should be able to do that. I thank you so much for coming to California. We are so appreciative.” 👉For more videos like this, subscribe to The Daily Signal’s YouTube channel and enable notifications to be alerted the second a new video drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	Thank you, Donald Trump.
0:31.6	He is going to write this executive order that is going to allow the Trump administration and federal
0:36.7	dollars to flow into the
0:37.8	Pacific Palisades, expedite permits, and start the building process.
0:42.4	And to anybody who's not supporting this, please listen to me.
0:45.8	This is the most important thing that could happen in California because what it's going
0:49.3	to do is it's going to show people how builders build.
1:13.8	Hi Daily Signal. It's Elaine Collotti and I just had to jump on and say thank you Donald Trump. Today's Daily Signal is about Donald Trump announcing that he is going to write this
1:19.7	executive order that is going to allow the Trump administration and federal dollars to flow
1:24.9	into the Pacific Palisades and help Palestinians and Altadena,
1:29.5	and I think he left off Malibu, but he must have meant Malibu, expedite permits and start the building process.
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