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Acting FEMA Administrator David Richardson has come under fire for comments where he allegedly joked that he didn't know that hurricane season started.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the reports and claimed on Tuesday that FEMA and the federal government were taking the season seriously.

The press secretary, however, warned that Trump will "review requests for emergency aid and carefully considering them," when it came to disaster aid.

"This president has made it clear we're not going to enable states to make bad decisions with federal tax dollars and then have the federal government later have to bail these states out," Leavitt said. "We want to see states be responsible with their tax dollars to do as much as they possibly can and then the president will deeply and thoughtfully consider any requests for federal aid that come to his desk."

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about states such as California and Connecticut that have restricted religious exemptions for student vaccine mandates.

The press secretary said the president supports religious vaccine exemptions and would follow up.

"I'll have the administration in the White House look into it and see what executive action, if any, we can take on that front," Leavitt said.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters in Tuesday's press briefing that President Donald Trump views recent attacks against the Jewish community in the U.S. as acts of "terrorism." She said the administration will look into any policy measures and actions to take in response.

"The president has made it very clear, as he said in his statement yesterday, that, yes, these antisemitic acts of violence are, do qualify as terrorism. And he does not want to see terrorism or violence of any form taking place in the United States of America," Leavitt said.

President Donald Trump is working the phones and meeting with Republican senators to get his One Big Beautiful Bill Act through the Senate.

Trump met with Senate Majority Leader John Thune at the White House Monday, according to a White House official. The meeting comes as Thune faces the Herculean task of moving this House-backed bill through the Senate as expeditiously as possible.

Thune has so far not made clear what his strategy will be for moving this package through the upper chamber. But as things currently stand, Thune can only afford to lose three of his GOP members to pass the package, and right now, he has more members than that expressing serious doubts about the bill.

Trump’s outreach over the last 24 hours seems targeted at those senators who have most vocally expressed those concerns. The conversations come as Trump continues to push Congress to deliver the package to his desk before July 4.

The president met separately with Florida Sen. Rick Scott on Monday to discuss the big beautiful bill, sources confirmed to ABC News.

Scott is among a group of Senate hardliners who want to see larger cuts to government spending in this bill. Sen. Ron Johnson, who also received a call from Trump Monday, according to the White House, has also been vocal about his concerns that the bill doesn’t go nearly far enough to slash federal spending.

--ABC News' Michelle Stoddart