Under the heading of “Ending the subsidization of California’s mismanagement,” Trump ordered a full review of all federal “programs, projects and activities” related to land management, water and disasters in the state. That’s a threat to withdraw certain federal funding if things don’t change.

DOGE officials visited the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s water pumps in Northern California and said they’d worked with the agency to increase water deliveries south, as Trump has been pushing California to do.