I believe the Administration believes that to deal with fire borrowing you have to freeze, and I use that word specifically, you have to freeze the amount of money that is spent on fighting fire at a fixed number, like the current 10-year average.
Wyden emphasizes the need to freeze fire-fighting funds to address fire borrowing.
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