‘They have to clean it up. We can’t have our cities going to hell’: Trump warns he’ll punish San Francisco with EPA violations because the homeless population is dumping used NEEDLES into storm drains and the ocean
Donald Trump said the Environmental Protection Agency will be ‘putting out a notice’ of violations in San Francisco over its homelessness crisis
Trump said the burgeoning vagrant population has inundated storm drains with waste and is sending trash, including needles, into the ocean
‘We can’t have our cities going to hell,’ he said on Air Force One on Wednesday
San Francisco has seen its homeless population swell to 8,011 people in January 2019, a 17 percent increase from 2017
On Tuesday while en route to San Francisco, Trump said he was considering creating an ‘individual task force’ as a possible solution to homelessness
San Francisco’s mayor London Breed called Trump’s comments ‘ridiculous’
By MARLENE LENTHANG
DAILYMAIL.COM
19 September 2019
Donald Trump is warning that he’ll hit San Francisco with EPA violations because the city’s burgeoning homelessness population is overwhelming drains with waste and sending trash – including dirty needles – into the ocean.
The president said the Environmental Protection Agency will be ‘putting out a notice’ of violations in San Francisco soon, while speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One Wednesday evening.
Trump spoke on the tremendous amount of waste accumulating in the northern California city that is going through storm drains and pouring into the ocean.
‘It’s a terrible situation that’s in Los Angeles and in San Francisco. And we’re going to be giving San Francisco — they’re in total violation — we’re going to be giving them a notice very soon,’ Trump told reporters.
‘They have to clean it up. We can’t have our cities going to hell,’ he added.
‘It’s a terrible situation that’s in Los Angeles and in San Francisco. And we’re going to be giving San Francisco — they’re in total violation — we’re going to be giving them a notice very soon,’ Trump told reporters,’ Trump said from Air Force One Wednesday evening. He says trash including needles is getting into the oceans (File image of pollution in oceans above)
His comments come as the president flew back to Capitol Hill after two days of fundraising in California.
Prior to his statements Wednesday, there had been no indication Trump intended to use environmental laws to tackle the homelessness crisis. It’s not clear what laws EPA would cite in doubling down on San Francisco.
In his rant, he railed against Los Angeles and San Francisco for not doing enough to address the growing homelessness population.
Trump’s warnings are his latest jab against California, a blue state he’s continually sparred with throughout his time in office.
However, there is stock in the president’s concern as San Francisco has seen its homeless population swell to 8,011 people in January 2019, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, a 17 percent increase from 2017.
Furthermore tens of thousands of hypodermic needles are collected every month from the streets of San Francisco. In August 2018 alone the city’s Public Health Department’s needle recovery program retrieved 164,264 needles through a disposal program and street cleanups.
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