Posted on 01/08/2025 12:36:20 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President-elect Donald Trump attacked California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday as thousands of acres burned in a blaze that tore through Los Angeles County. Mr. Trump threatened to take on the state’s water policies when he assumes office later this month.
Mr. Trump raged at Mr. Newsom on Truth Social, pinning the blame for the disaster on the Democrat’s decision to reject a 2019 federal plan that would have increased the water supply in Southern California.
“Governor Gavin Newscum [sic] refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snowmelt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way,” Mr. Trump wrote.
Mr. Trump also slammed Mr. Newsom over reports that fire hydrants in some areas have run dry, thanks to empty water reservoirs.
The Democrat-run state and city are struggling to battle the spreading blaze, fueled by 100-mph winds. At least 1,000 structures have burned and two people have died as a result of the fires, according to city officials.
Mr. Trump has attacked Mr. Newsom in the past over the state’s wildfire and water management and at least twice threatened to pull federal money.
In 2019, during Mr. Trump’s first term, the federal Bureau of Reclamation proposed pumping more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta into the state’s two water delivery systems. The plan was backed by federal fishery reports that determined the additional pumping would not harm endangered species.
But Mr. Newsom signed off on modified regulations aimed at protecting Chinook salmon and the Delta smelt, which is largely extinct.
In his Wednesday post, Mr. Trump called...
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The ICC was intended to remove hindrances to the flow of commerce BETWEEN states. The Left wrested the ICC to regulate within a state. That is MORE unconstitutional federal activity.
Agreed
Trump also needs to wake up to the catastrophe of removing our dams so we are unable to fight fires or flooding.
Most of what the federal government has been involved in has been, and is, unconstitutional and illegal. The unconstitutional portion of the federal gov’t is the single most threatening factor in America.
Ultimately it is Newsomes Fault, but most of the blame lies with the SIERRA CLUB, the greedy slimy dumbass politicians and the courts made the decision to become Communists
Do you think the state of Pennsylvania should have the authority to construct dams and basically dry up the Ohio River just because its two largest tributaries — the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers — flow through that state?
Is a lack of forest management and tons of flammable brush blowing about everywhere mentioned?
“It is a Federal issue when the plan includes diverting water to CA from other states.”
If California lets less water go to waste, Arizona and Nevada could get more water from the Colorado.
The rich and the affluent are the main ones pushing class warfare these days. It isn’t the poor calling me garbage.
Common sense?
Are you serious?
Agree.
Controversies between two or more States are to be decided by the Supreme Court (US Const., Art. III, Sec. 2).
I used to have a neighbor who ran a business installing underground water tanks.
It does rain in southern California at times.
” Attacked.” Stinking marxist traitor “ media.”
Grover Cleveland was a SMALL Government Conservative. Bur when strikers threatened the mails and the railroads, he stepped in whem the Govenor would nor. Newsome has abrogated responsibility.
The Constitution as written and originally understood and intended is the Supreme Law of the Land over Grover Cleveland, Trump or anyone else (US Const., Art. VI, Cl. 2).
And Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution explicitly requires Congress to approve any agreement between two or more states.
I thought that was Frank Burns?
Where do you get that? Please quote the "explicit" clause.
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