Trump says US army has ‘turned on the water’ in wildfire-ravaged California
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President Trump mentioned late Monday that he despatched the army to California, utilizing emergency orders to show “on the water” within the wildfire-ravaged Golden State.
“The USA Navy simply entered the Nice State of California and, underneath Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and past,” the forty seventh president mentioned in a late-night Reality Social publish.
“The times of placing a Pretend Environmental argument, over the PEOPLE, are OVER. Benefit from the water, California!!!”
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The state’s Division Of Water Sources (DWP) later poured chilly water on Trump’s claims, sustaining that the “army didn’t enter California.”
“The federal authorities restarted federal water pumps after they have been offline for upkeep for 3 days,” the DWP posted on X.
“State water provides in Southern California stay plentiful.”
It comes after Trump repeatedly accused California Gov. Gavin Newsom and different officers of withholding water provides as a handful of lethal wildfires turned the Los Angeles space right into a raging inferno.