President Donald Trump said he’d withhold wildfire disaster aid to California unless Gov. Gavin Newsom goes his way on water. Newsom appears to have gotten the message.
The governor has been working hard to show he also wants to send more water to the state’s farmers and cities ahead of his trip to Washington, D.C., today, where he met with lawmakers and Trump to make the pitch for federal recovery funds for the Los Angeles fires…
Environmental groups called the order a “page from Trump’s playbook.”
“He’s definitely competing with Donald Trump on who can destroy the Bay most,” Jon Rosenfield, senior scientist at the San Francisco Baykeeper, said of Newsom.
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