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Federal funding freeze may make it hard to fight wildfires

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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) - A month after several fires tore through Los Angeles and left more than $250 billion in damage, congressional Democrats said President Donald Trump's administration is making it more difficult to fight wildfires. "The chaos and disruption that the Trump administration is engaged in will have real world consequences for communities like my community in Northern Colorado," said Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.). Unanimous dec…

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Oregon senators call for federal firefighters to be exempt from hiring freeze – Malheur Enterprise

Oregon U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley were among a dozen other lawmakers recently calling on the Trump administration to exempt seasonal firefighters from its temporary federal hiring freeze. Soon after being inaugurated in January, President Donald Trump issued a 90-day hiring freeze for federal agencies with some exceptions. The senators wrote that the January 20 executive order “explicitly exempted” public safety personnel and allowed …

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Capitol Connection: Comptroller talks Madigan verdict, federal funding freezes

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) -- Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza sat down with Capitol Bureau Chief Cole Henke on Capitol Connection to give some insight on the upcoming budget address. Mendoza said she believes Governor J.B. Pritzker will rise to the challenge of presenting a balanced budget at his address Wednesday despite a $3.2 billion projected deficit. That job is made much harder due to federal funding freezes from President Donald Trump's…

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Federal funding freeze may make it hard to fight wildfires

A month after several fires tore through Los Angeles and left more than $250 billion in damage, congressional Democrats said President Donald Trump's administration is making it more difficult to fight wildfires.

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How the federal funding and hiring freezes are leaving communities vulnerable to wildfire

This story was originally published by ProPublica. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s efforts to shrink the federal government, launched as the deadly Palisades and Eaton fires burned across Los Angeles, have left the country’s wildland firefighting force unprepared for the rapidly approaching wildfire season. The administration has frozen funds, including money appropriated by Congress, and issued a deluge of orders eliminating federal empl…

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Federal hiring freeze raises concerns for wildfire preparedness

As Southern Oregon’s fire season officially ended on October 26th, Oregon and California lawmakers are raising concerns about the federal hiring freeze that could impact the next wildfire season.

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