California Sen. Adam Schiff (D) sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other senior Trump administration officials Thursday expressing “serious concern” about actions taken to increase the water flow of a lake in Ohio to allow Vice President Vance and his family better navigate a recreational kayaking trip.

Schiff asked Hegseth, Adam Telle, the assistant secretary of the Army for civil works, and Sean Curran, the director of the U.S. Secret Service, to provide more information about a decision to change the outflow of Ohio’s Caesar Creek Lake to help Vance celebrate his 41st birthday with a family boat float.

“Reporting suggests that the request from the Secret Service to alter the outflow request for Caesar Creek Lake was not just to ensure safe or secure conditions but also to create favorable kayaking conditions. If true, this is an inappropriate and embarrassing abuse of power over publicly owned resources by the Trump administration,” Schiff

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