Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security Committee pressed Kristi Noem, President-elect Trump’s nominee for secretary of Homeland Security, on whether she would apply conditions to or withhold disaster aid based on politics at her confirmation hearing Friday.

Flags should fly at full staff in South Carolina, by order of Gov. Henry McMaster, for Monday’s presidential inauguration then return to half-staff honoring former President Jimmy Carter. President-elect Donald Trump prefers all flags to go up for the day.

It is the strongest response Newsom has made so far in the week since the fires first erupted in the Los Angeles area.