President Trump stated late Monday that he despatched the navy to California, utilizing emergency orders to show “on the water” within the wildfire-ravaged Golden State.
“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,” the forty seventh president stated in a late-night Fact Social submit.
“The days of putting a Fake Environmental argument, over the PEOPLE, are OVER. Enjoy the water, California!!!”
The state’s Division Of Water Assets (DWP) later poured chilly water on Trump’s claims, sustaining that the “military did not enter California.”
“The federal government restarted federal water pumps after they were offline for maintenance for three days,” the DWP posted on X.
“State water supplies in Southern California remain 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.