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Catherine Cortez Masto: “With the 53 percent cut of the Forest Service's budget spent, or actually it's 53 percent of your budget spent, on fire…”

On the recordJune 14, 2017
With the 53 percent cut of the Forest Service's budget spent, or actually it's 53 percent of your budget spent, on fire suppression, and the cuts that I am seeing and particularly, under President Trump's budget, the cuts to the Forest Service would impact state and private forestry budgets.
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Catherine Cortez Masto
Democratic · Nevada

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Cortez Masto discusses the impact of budget cuts on fire suppression in Nevada.

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