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Trump performs politics with California’s water as wildfires burn

Editorial Board Published January 28, 2025
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Throughout his go to to Southern California final week, President Donald Trump signed an government order that blames current devastating wildfires on the state’s liberal governance and water insurance policies. The order goals to eradicate guidelines together with endangered species protections and provides his administration the jurisdiction to supervise a lot of the state’s water allocation.

“Almost immediately, firefighters were unable to fight the blaze due to dry hydrants, empty reservoirs, and inadequate water infrastructure,” reads the chief order.

These claims have been refuted by firefighters on the bottom in addition to consultants, who stated no “water system in the world” may’ve stopped the raging fires made worse by hurricane-strength winds in early January. 

The manager order proposes that the Trump administration take over the Central Valley Venture and the State Water Venture, claiming it’ll assist combat the wildfires in Southern California. However about 75% of Central Valley Venture water is used for California’s meals trade, whereas the remainder goes to cities and cities within the Sacramento and Fresno areas—that are in Northern and Central California.

It’s unclear how Trump would wield his energy over California’s water sources, however having federal companies such because the Division of Inside and Division of Commerce answerable for these sources would give him energy to play politics with the blue state. 

The manager order additionally threatens to chop off federal funding to the state, saying that it needs to finish “the subsidization of California’s mismanagement,” leaving it as much as the director of the Workplace of Administration and Funds to overview funding associated to California’s land and water administration and catastrophe response.

“I’m signing an executive order to open up the pumps and valves in the north. We want to get that water pouring down here as quickly as possible and let hundreds of millions of gallons of water flow down into Southern California, and that’ll be a big benefit to you,” Trump stated on Friday throughout his assembly with officers. 

The manager order focuses on California’s supposed mismanagement and immigration insurance policies relatively than on growing Federal Emergency Administration Company funding for the ravaged state, vaguely threatening to look into “the misuse” of a $213 million federal grant.

“As of the date of this order, the city has yet to use the majority of its $213 million allotment that has accrued since fiscal year 2021,” the order states. “These Federal preparedness grants shall not be used to support illegal aliens. The Attorney General, in coordination with the FEMA Administrator, shall investigate the misuse of these grants by the City of Los Angeles and take appropriate action to address such misuse.”

FILE - A firefighter battles the Palisades Fire as it burns a structure in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope,File)
A firefighter battles the Palisades Fireplace because it burns a construction within the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Jan. 7, 2025.

It’s no shock that the notoriously xenophobic Trump is wedging irrelevant immigration points and the specter of investigations into an government order that’s supposedly centered on catastrophe aid.

This comes as Trump voiced his intent to restructure or eradicate FEMA altogether throughout a go to to Asheville, North Carolina, the place Hurricane Helene hit. On Sunday, he signed one other government order making a “review council” to search out methods to alter FEMA, which allocates aid funding and assists with restoration in disaster-hit areas.

California Republicans who’re often in lockstep with Trump are in a tricky spot, with some even voicing their disgust.

“Playing politics with people’s livelihoods is unacceptable and a slap in the face to the Southern California wildfire victims and to our brave first responders,” stated Rep. Younger Kim, a Republican from Orange County, in an announcement.

Trump’s government orders are extra centered on scoring political factors and putting blame than addressing the actual points dealing with California and the broader nation. By attacking native insurance policies and undermining federal companies like FEMA, the administration seems extra taken with creating division than providing options.

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