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/Shoddy_Pay5822 May 02 '25

Best of luck teaching all the FS folks how to do their own times in QuickTime let alone getting them all onboarded, PIV card issued. physical and medically cleared, background investigated. DOI is already a small support org. Overloaded with work. Cant imagine them taking on the FS firefighter workforce all at once.

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u/hartfordsucks Rage Against the (Green) Machine May 02 '25

Not to mention they want to gut most of and then combine the remnants of all DOI support functions. You guys thought ASC was a hot dysfunctional mess...

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u/Shoddy_Pay5822 May 03 '25

ASC is still a hot lunch. Not sure how they had that many people employed in New Mexico that only wanted to do the minimum and make maximum excuses….oh yeah. I remember, it was remote work. I could hear their kids in the background and their dogs barking when we were at work.

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u/hartfordsucks Rage Against the (Green) Machine May 03 '25

Yeah it's totally WFH and not the fact that NM is dead last in the US in education. Not exactly the best and brightest pool of potential employees. The frontline staff might as well be paid in sunsets too. It's almost like when an employer doesn't pay competitive wages they have to hire anyone with a pulse instead of people that can actually excel at the job. Not to mention they also work for the same incompetent WO that we all do.

But yeah, WFH that was the problem.

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u/Shoddy_Pay5822 May 03 '25

More downvotes please! It only Proves that this sub is taken over by people who didn’t work at a station through furloughs and covid. I don’t know one person I fought fire with who was sympathetic to work from home people going to work or ASC for that matter.