Executive Order 14181: Emergency Measures To Provide Water Resources in California and Improve Disaster Response in Certain Areas

What the order contains

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• Sec. 1. Policy
• Sec. 2. Overriding Disastrous California Policies
• Sec. 3. Ending the Subsidization of California's Mismanagement
• Sec. 4. Additional Actions to Help Los Angeles Families
• Sec. 5. Additional Actions to Help North Carolina Families
• Sec. 6. General Provisions

Section 1, quoted from the order

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For weeks, residents of the Los Angeles area have watched raging fires consume their homes, belongings, beloved pets, and childhood memories. Almost immediately, firefighters were unable to fight the blaze due to dry hydrants, empty reservoirs, and inadequate water infrastructure. Today, at least 28 people have lost their lives and thousands more have lost everything else, with some damage estimates calculating hundreds of billions of dollars in damage. This tragedy affects the entire Nation, so it is in the Nation's interest to ensure that California has what it needs to prevent and fight these fires and others in the future. Therefore, it is the policy of the United States to provide Southern California with necessary water resources, notwithstanding actively harmful State or local policies. […]

Federal Register notes

See: EO 14377, January 23, 2026; EO 14378, January 23, 2026