Speaker of the House and Louisiana Republican Rep. Mike John believes that there should be conditions on any relief sent to California from the federal government in response to the wildfires that have raged parts of the state.

He was speaking to CNN reporter Manu Raju about the aid to the state and what he would want to see in place before that aid was rendered by the federal government.

“Are you open to providing aid to California without any conditions at all?” the reporter asked.

“I think we’ve got to have a serious conversation about that. Obviously, there’s been water resource mismanagement, forest management mistakes, all sorts of problems. And it does come down to leadership,” the Speaker responded.

“And it appears to us that state and local leaders were derelict in their duty in many respects. So that’s something that has to be factored in. I think there should probably be conditions on that aid,” Johnson added.

“That’s my personal view. We’ll see what the consensus is. I haven’t had a chance to socialize that with any of the members over the weekend because we’ve all been very busy. But it will be part of the discussion for sure,” Johnson said.

“What about the debt limit increase? What about tying the debt limit increase to it?” Raju asked.

“There’s some discussion about that, but we’ll see where it goes,” the Speaker said.