President Trump raised his war with California on Monday night, with US military troops arrived in the state, and came to the state to run pumps and send more water – state officials quickly refused.
On Monday evening, the Trump military entered the largest state of California, in a post on his social media base, Truth Social, under the emergency forces, and beyond the Pacific Northwest. “
The California Water Resources Department responded in a statement: “The military did not enter California. The federal government reboot the federal water pump after being offline for three days. There are plenty of state water products in Southern California. ”
Trump's post came up with the signing of the order to “increase” federal organizations in California, to “override” state policies, and follow the long -standing debate with Gavin Newsome on the state's water management policies.
Trump said Newsome had stopped water supply in California and responded to Los Angeles' latest wildfire. Newsome and state departments have repeatedly denied these claims, referring to a large number of water supply in Southern California.
The California Water Agents Association said in a statement on Monday that “water supply is not an obstacle.” “Reservoirs in California are at the average storage levels of this year.
Trump Administrative orderReleased on Friday, the Sacramento-San Joak River outlines the steps aimed at increasing the amount of water driven from Delta.
The order, issued on the White House website on Sunday, leads the interior and commercial secretaries “to take immediate action to violate the existing measures to make efforts to increase water supply.”
One of the two major organizations of the aquarium, dams and pumping facilities in California is called to supply more water through the Federal Central Valley Program, which transports goods from Delta to south. The president also ordered the rehabilitation of the Federal Bureau to ensure that state companies would not interfere.
In this order, Trump criticizes California's “catastrophic” policies and water “false management”, and leads federal organizations to remove a plan accepted by the Bidan administration last month to establish new rules to enable the central valley project and the state water project – the main water supply system in California's other central valley.
Instead, Trump has told federal organizations to follow a plan adopted during his first presidency, which has challenged California and environmental groups in court, arguing that it failed to provide adequate protection to dangerous fish.
Trump has said he wants to try to weaken environmental protection measures and question why the government should have some runs in rivers to help organisms such as Delta Smelt and “little fish”. It is one of the many threatened and dangerous fish species, including the Steelhead Out of the Delta, the two types of Chinook Salmon, the Longfin Smelt and the Green Sturgeon.
He doubled his criticism at his Monday Evening Post, “A pseudo -environmental argument, on the people, is over. California, Enjoy water !!! ”
Trump has repeatedly said that the wildfire in South California has been sustained as to why the government should provide more water from Delta. But water managers and experts have said that the cities of South California have not now diminished in water, pointing out that the reservoirs of the region have achieved a record after the supply of large quantities in 2023 and 2024.
State officials have said that the local fire in Los Angeles has nothing to do with moving water south from Delta.
Trump's administrative directive is often focused on the federal valley scheme, one of the two main water supply systems in the state, which transports water from the Delta to almonds, pistachios, tomatoes and other crops that produce agricultural lands.
The CVP ends in the Valley of South Chan Joak, near the CVP Backersfield, and does not reach the urban areas of southern California.