Senators Wyden, Risch, and I, along with others, worked hard to successfully end the practice of fire borrowing, and we must ensure that the Forest Service does not return to that practice of robbing non-fire accounts to cover fire costs.
Cantwell emphasizes the importance of ending fire borrowing practices to protect funding for firefighting.
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At today’s briefing with Sec. Burgum, U.S. Wildland Fire Service Chief Brian Fennessy, and local fire chiefs, we discussed the next steps in responding to the fires and collecting information for a federal disaster declaration.
Today, it is the top fire in our nation. That means [the federal government is] going to give us the resources that we need here on the ground.
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