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 ...

"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 ...

According to the Times on Friday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had then been directed to dramatically increase the flow ...

California Democrats delayed votes on their “Trump-proofing” bills that would have provided $25 million for funding lawsuits ...

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

California officials refute President Trump's social media claim that the U.S. military entered the state and "turned on the ...

Despite its sanctuary policies, California’s undocumented immigrant population faces more questions and possible detention by ...

On the first week of Donald Trump's second presidency, we report from Washington, D.C., and the frontlines of fire damage in ...

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

A new House bill would make it a federal crime to “cause a wildfire, further the spread of a wildfire, or attempt to do ...