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/Prehistory_Buff May 02 '25

These people know absolutely, literally nothing about Rx fire. They seriously think that we can timber sale out way out of firestorms. God, what is going to happen y'all?

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u/Hoary May 03 '25

Big fire. Little response because can't. People die. FF's refuse unsafe situations, get fired. FF's afraid of losing jobs do the unsafe stuff, probably die. That's my prediction in a nutshell.