Summary
DOGE staffers Tyler Hassen and Bryton Shang tried pressuring the Bureau of Reclamation to open a California water pump to aid Los Angeles during January’s wildfires, though the system couldn’t reach the city.
When denied, they flew there to do it themselves but failed due to maintenance and access restrictions.
Critics called DOGE a “slapstick operation of 20-somethings they’re seeing as whiz kids but have zero knowledge.”
Trump later ordered dam releases, flooding farmland. Critics called DOGE’s actions reckless and uninformed.
That’s why 2 random 20-somethings with no water infrastructure education/experience went out there personally on a whim with no planning and were denied access, right? Because it’s all a master plan that was orchestrated slowly and carefully?
These guys don’t care about ecology, you’re fooling yourself. Stop trying to make fools of everyone else too.