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.

The California Department of Water Resources on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump’s claim that the U.S. military “turned on the water” supply in the state. In a statement on X, formerly Twitter,

As a rule, the president’s water-related preoccupation generates eye-rolling and easy jokes. Sometimes, however, it’s not funny at all.