I happen to agree with Ronald Reagan that defense is not a budget issue. You spend what you need to spend in order to protect the country.

On Earth Day this year, President Biden said--I love this quote--'One of the things I found out as President of the United States, I get to spend a lot of that money. We are going to start the process where every vehicle in the United…

So, you would place the climate in the same category as China or the national debt.

The Forest Service used to have what was called the 10 a.m. rule.

the so-called Bipartisan Infrastructure Law reflects yet another example of Congress just throwing money at a problem, trying to put a Band-Aid on the symptoms instead of actually getting to the root problem

the primary culprits bogging down responsible management and recovery of our overgrown fire-prone forests have been and remain onerous regulatory burdens and the continued weaponization of our courts by activist environmental groups

Until they quit suing, until we quit giving them the ability to hold up the management, there is no amount of money and no number of staff that are going to be able to fix the problem with our forests.

This is insane. Please tell me that you are dropping that policy and that you will be vigorously attacking fires on their initial discovery rather than waiting for them to become these massive conflagrations.

Every day, the Forest Service had helicopters flying over to take pictures for Facebook but never bothered to drop a bucket of water or put the damn thing out.

But you knew about it. You deliberately sat on it.

Can you assure me that henceforth, upon discovery of a fire, you will order an aggressive initial attack?