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/murpees May 02 '25

Yeah you keep saying this but I don’t think you understand what you are talking about. If “thriving in the grey area” means doing nothing like a bagger and not giving a shit then you are exactly right.

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u/Amateur-Pro278 May 02 '25

After almost 3 decades in Fed fire I know exactly what I am talking about. 

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u/Sarcastikon May 03 '25

You’ll get someone killed I’m sure

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u/Amateur-Pro278 May 03 '25 edited May 03 '25

Dear Cuck,

Do you know that many of our PPE standards were written over 37 years ago and have not changed? Did you know we still are required to wear criminally substandard hardhats when the rest of the world has moved on from them into safety helmets? Did you know that we aren't ALLOWED to wear respirators? Even if you buy your own you are not allowed to wear it on the line because USFS has no respirator plan.  Once everything starts going to shit we can actually start making moves to make us safer. Only a bitch would put their people at more risk. Things aren't black and white, our agencies actually constrain us with substandard gear, policies and protocols.  

Grow up and start exploiting like a leader instead of sitting around, sniveling like a bitch.