U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla is pursuing answers after the Trump administration opened California dams using military resources.

A day after President Donald Trump claimed to have used the U.S. military and emergency powers to pump more water from ...

Trump issued the executive order last weekend in response to the catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles after he had falsely blamed water shortages during the response on California’s water management ...

California Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla said he will attend the 47th presidential inauguration on Monday in which ...

President Donald Trump said on social media that the military had intervened to secure California water supplies.

"California is the largest contributor of tax revenue to the federal treasury by far," Padilla wrote Jan. 27 on X. "In 2022 alone, California paid $83 billion more to the federal government than it ...

U.S. Senator Alex Padilla Questions Defense Secretary Hegseth on Trump’s Purported Military Action to “Turn On” California Water ...

Congress also is considering making it a federal crime to commit a theft in an area where a major disaster declaration has ...

The president threatened to condition federal funding on a voter ID law and water policy changes ahead of a trip to California.

President Trump named voter identification laws as a requirement for California before he would release disaster relief to ...

In recent weeks, Trump and his allies — notably billionaire Elon Musk on his X platform — have attacked Newsom’s leadership ...