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Back in September, Donald Trump raised eyebrows when he called for opening a “very large faucet” in the Pacific Northwest to alleviate drought and wildfire conditions in California. “You have millions of gallons of water pouring down from the north, with the snow caps in Canada and all pouring down, and they have essentially a very large faucet,” he told reporters at an LA press conference, adding that all of that water goes “aimlessly” into the Pacific Ocean, “and if they turned it back, all of that water would come...

President Trump issued an emergency directive to send active duty troops to California to help battle the fires that are still destroying people’s lives. “The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond,” Trump announced on Truth Social.

The California Department of Water Resources rejected President Donald Trump's claim that the U.S. military "turned on the water" from the Pacific Northwest, saying federal water pumps were restarted by the federal government after maintenance. Trump on Monday wrote in a Truth Social post: "The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest." "The military did not enter California.

While a task force assesses the need for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, President Donald Trump signed an executive order giving FEMA and other federal agencies authority to override California state laws and federal statutes in providing relief amid the Los Angeles wildfires. First and foremost, the order refers to California's complex water management operations. The order, dated Friday, came after Trump traveled to Los Angeles to see the devastation from wildfires that have been raging for weeks, The New York Times reported. One section of the order is titled...

President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order Sunday that told federal agencies to “immediately take action” to deliver more Central Valley water and eliminate rules that stand in the way, including endangered species protections. In the new order, Trump cited the Los Angeles fires, even though the actions he is ordering — primarily delivering more water from the federal Central Valley Project — would primarily serve farms. About 75% of Central Valley Project water is used for agriculture, while much of the rest goes to cities and towns in...

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