Overview
- In a post on Truth Social, the president said Mexico has fallen short on treaty obligations for five years and owes the United States nearly one billion cubic meters of water.
- He set December 31 as the deadline for Mexico to release roughly one quarter of that volume, with the remainder to follow soon after.
- He said he has authorized preparations to impose a five percent tariff on Mexican imports if the water is not released immediately.
- Under the 1944 treaty, Mexico delivers Rio Grande water to the United States in exchange for water from the Colorado River, a system that has strained during drought.
- Texas members of Congress had urged stronger pressure, with the White House citing risks to Texas agriculture, and Mexico had not publicly responded in the reports reviewed.