This bill--supported by 85 organizations, including the Family Farm Alliance--would help address the environmental and economic threats of catastrophic wildfires.
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Westerman highlights the importance of his bill in combating wildfires.
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I think under RAWA you would have about $13 million a year, but you probably have the potential to generate $30 or $40 million a year to do wildlife management where you don't have something like a timber resource to pay it back.
We are borrowing it from our kids and our grandkids. And with no offsets to it, that is pretty irresponsible.
Doing so would not only be a benefit to our environment, but would also tremendously help our rural economies.
Clawing back $700 million of Inflation Reduction Act funds designated for coastal resilience funding at NOAA, as Rep. Westerman's bill attempts to do, would move us in the wrong direction toward preparing our coastal communities for…





