r/Wildfire • u/Flat-Suggestion-8373 • May 02 '25

News (General) FY26 Trump Budget Request Details Released - New Wildfire Agency and Huge Cuts Outside WFM

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Here are some of the wildfire-related items in the FY26 budget blueprint that the White House released today (link below). Chiefly, it proposes a “new Federal Wildland Fire Service” under DOI. But also note significant changes in related areas, like the draconian cuts to the “non-fire” side of Forest Service (e.g., almost complete elimination of FS R&D, significant cut to already underfunded NFS activities, etc.).

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf

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u/BakedBones1207 May 02 '25

This the president's budget blueprint. Normally congressional appropriations staff just throw it away and do what they want. Susan Collins and Patty Murray chair the Senate committee.

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u/Flat-Suggestion-8373 May 02 '25

Normally, sure. But we don’t normally have an Admin. interested in challenging impoundment law. And at the very least, this sends a clear signal about what the Admin. thinks about the role of land management agencies. And which employees the Admin. thinks are worth keeping around.

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u/Ready-Ad6113 May 02 '25

If these cuts go through, it’s basically the end of the USFS. We don’t have the infrastructure or mills to harvest what they want. Midterms are next year too so all of this might be undone. All this damage for nothing.

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u/E2fire May 02 '25

It also says most National Parks will be given to the States