The state’s Republican farmers are an emerging force but still fear tariffs and deportations.
Colorado River water fills the furrows of a farm field in Blythe, California, where growers have been leaving some fields dry in exchange for cash payments to help conserve water.
State officials responded that the military had not, in fact, entered California and that water pumps under federal control had simply been turned back on after three days of maintenance. Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, who has often sparred with Trump, accused the president of pushing misinformation. Sending more water from Northern California to the south had “nothing to do” with fire response, spokesperson Tara Gallegos said.
He found Vance a quick study, particularly on the need for more water. “He was very receptive,” Bourdeau said. At the center of Trump’s executive action is a 400-mile water conveyance system known as the Central Valley Project, run by the US Bureau of Reclamation. Along with a separate state-run system, the project transports Sierra Nevada snowmelt and rainwater from the confluence of two major rivers that form the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
“People are burned out of their homes in Los Angeles, people died, and Trump’s response is to subsidize major agribusinesses,” said Jon Rosenfield, senior scientist with the environmental group San Francisco Baykeeper. “The surface water from the Central Valley Project is our lifeblood,” said Allison Febbo, the district’s general manager. She lamented the over 150,000 acres of land left dry due to water restrictions. “We’ve been treated as the end of the line for water supply in California,” she said.
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