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On Tuesday, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) announced the Trump administration was "investing more than $315.5 million to create new water storage at the future Sites Reservoir and at the existing San Luis Reservoir."
The Mercury News reported that Trump wasn't dedicating new federal funds for the projects. The funding had already been approved through the administration of former President Joe Biden and was no longer locked as part of the president's federal funding freeze.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/d...1&cvid=c5d9f6baea154c3cdce2f0a03324a8f1&ei=66Greg Gartrell, retired assistant general manager of the Contra Costa Water District, said in The Mercury News report: "I've never heard of anyone freezing money and then unfreezing it and making a splash about it. I think they were embarrassed they froze it and Republican congresspeople probably raised hell about it, so they unfroze it."
and you can bet your arses that most republicans you speak with, even those with college or uni degrees, will believe it's a sign of trump's generosity as a president that he's invested all those millions into a state whose governor he is often at odds with, not even realising it was a Biden initiative and an unfreezing of funds already allocated!