特朗普暗示他可能因水政策而暂停对加州的联邦援助
Trump Signals He May Withhold Federal Aid To California Over Water Policies

原始链接: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-signals-he-may-withhold-federal-aid-california-over-water-policies

特朗普总统威胁要由于其水政策而拒绝加利福尼亚州的联邦援助,他声称这与毁灭性的野火有关。他指责州长新闻杂志未能管理大火,并断言该州应从北加州释放更多的水来解决水短缺。特朗普还批评了FEMA在处理野火恢复方面的表现。此外,特朗普计划访问洛杉矶,但不确定他是否会与Newsom见面。 Newsom对特朗普关于鱼类和水资源短缺的主张提出了异议,而特朗普提出了对FEMA的重大变化,有利于个人对自然灾害的反应。


原文

Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he is considering withholding federal aid to California following a series of devastating wildfires if the state doesn’t change its water policies.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Jan. 21, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

In an interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity, he reasserted that the state’s fish conservation efforts in Northern California are linked to problems with water availability amid the wildfires that erupted earlier this month. He also placed part of the blame on Gov. Gavin Newsom for not being able to quickly tame the fires.

I don’t think we should give California anything until they let water flow down,” he said.

In the interview, Trump also confirmed that he will visit Los Angeles on Friday after visiting North Carolina, which was devastated by Hurricane Helene last fall. However, the president said he doesn’t know if he will meet with Newsom.

Look, Gavin’s got one thing he can do: He can release the water that comes from the north. There is massive amounts of water, rainwater, and mountain water that comes due with the snow, comes down ... as it melts. There’s so much water,” Trump said, referring to Newsom, a Democrat.

On Monday, Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to “route more water” from Northern California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to other parts of the Golden State due to the wildfires in what he said was an attempt to end “radical environmentalism” that was essentially putting fish over people.

“The recent deadly and historically destructive wildfires in Southern California underscore why the State of California needs a reliable water supply and sound vegetation management practices in order to provide water desperately needed there, and why this plan must immediately be reimplemented,” the White House said.

At a news conference a day earlier, Trump said that “Los Angeles has massive amounts of water available to it.”

All they have to do is turn the valve,” he said.

Earlier in January, Newsom wrote a letter to Trump asking him to survey the devastation caused by the Los Angeles fires firsthand and meet with first responders. In an interview with NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” the governor also disputed Trump’s assertion about the fish and water shortages in Los Angeles.

Trump, he said, is “somehow connecting the delta smelt to this fire, which is inexcusable because it’s inaccurate.”

“Also, incomprehensible to anyone that understands water policy in the state,” Newsom said.

On Jan. 10, then-President Joe Biden said at an event that local utility companies intentionally shut off the power in Los Angeles, which led to water shortages during the fires.

“What I know from talking to the governor, that there are concerns out there that there’s also been a water shortage,“ Biden said in a briefing. ”The fact is the utilities, understandably, shut off power because they are worried the lines that carried energy were going to be blown down and spark additional fires.

When it did that, it cut off the ability to generate pumping the water. That’s what caused the lack of water in these hydrants.”

During the Hannity interview, Trump signaled that significant changes could be coming to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) because he would rather see individual states deal with their respective natural disaster responses.

The president also said he believes FEMA, which is handling some wildfire recovery efforts, has performed poorly over the “last four years.”

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