The State of California “redirected” funds from maintenance of the Oroville dam and spent them on other projects. Now, they want the US taxpayers to provide for the repairs that those funds would have been used for.
The answer should be “no”. Use the money you taxed your citizens for.
California asks federal taxpayers to fund repairs at dam – news – TDS
California is borrowing up to a half-billion dollars to pay for repairing badly damaged spillways at the nation’s tallest dam