The President Donald Trump assured the early morning of Tuesday that the United States Army had “entered California”a state devastated by recent fires, To “open water”, a fact that state authorities have denied.
“The United States Army has just entered the great state of California and, under emergency powers, opened the water that flows abundantly from the northwest of the Pacific and beyond,” Trump wrote in his social network in a Message in which he assured that “the days when using a false environmental argument about people ended. Enjoy water, California! ”
The message occurred one day after Trump issued an executive order that instructed half a dozen federal agenciesincluding the Department of Defense and the Department of National Security, to manage how to deliver more water to the south of California and the Central Valley to end the fires in Los Angeles that the president visited last Friday.
“The military did not enter California,” published the Department of Water Resources of the State of California in X. “The Federal Government restarted the supply of federal water pumps after they were out of service for maintenance for three days. State water supplies in southern California remain abundant, ”he said.
Trump made last Friday a visit to North Carolina Los Angeles, California, where he toured areas hit by natural disasters and slid the possibility of eliminating the Federal Emergency Agencyin addition to criticizing the management of the Democrats.
In California he supervised the damage caused by the fires of recent weeks in Los Angeles, about what has also been very critical for how the state governor, Democrat Gavin Newsom has managed.
From the beginning of the fires, Trump has accused the state authorities of wasting large amounts of water that, according to him, are sent to the Pacific Ocean instead of directing them to Los Angeles.
Trump ensures that this change in the flow of water is due to attempts from the state to protect a tiny -size fish called “Delta Smelt”, an assertion denied by local authorities and experts.
It also says, without foundation, that water could deviate from Canada and that it would be enough to turn a valve to solve the water problems of the state.
Continue reading:
(Tagstotranslate) California (T) Donald Trump