On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump issued a sweeping pardon for participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, including people who assaulted police.

President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order yesterday that told federal agencies to “immediately take action” to deliver more Central Valley water and eliminate rules that stand in the way, including endangered species protections.

Yet, one of the 26 executive orders Trump signed on his first day in office specifically addressed the delta smelt. The directive, “Putting People Over Fish,” ordered his administration to look into ways to better allow California residents and businesses to pull from the water in the state’s San Joaquin River Basin.

Some may have even been at airports ready to board when an executive order from President Donald Trump abruptly shut down the U.S. refugee admissions program. And while the order banning most refugee admissions was not set to take effect until Monday, Sacramento-area resettlement agencies say the shutdown has already started.

Why it matters: Blaming the fires on California’s liberal policies, President Donald Trump and GOP congressional leaders have proposed attaching assorted conditions to federal disaster aid — a move that, if taken seriously, threatens to delay recovery efforts.

Trump is taking aim at water supplies for an endangered fish, but scientists say he’s missing the point. It’s one of California’s thorniest problems. The nation’s most populous state is full of sprawling cities, vast farmland, rich ecosystems — and it must decide how to divide scarce water resources among them.

As President Donald Trump prepares to tour wildfire damage in California, he’s zeroing in on one of his frequent targets for criticism: State water policy.

After his inauguration, President Donald Trump pardoned hundreds of people who carried out the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol. That includes several people from northern California, who faced charges or had been sentenced to jail time. Read the full list of people from the Sacramento region charged for their role in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach here.

President Trump is ripping California Gov. Gavin Newsom over mismanagement of the state leading up to the devastating wildfires and handling of sanctuary cities ahead of his visit to the Golden State.

The new president issued an executive order Sunday that looks to maximize pumping of the Central Valley Project. It’s the only one he can control.

The president cannot eliminate fundamental rights by executive order, nor can he order federal agencies to violate the law,” California’s attorney general said in a statement.