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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gov-newsom-cut-fire-budget-100m-months- lethal-california-fires
California fire prevention took a hit the year before the fires, but the
Newsom administration claims it boosted overall funding since assuming
office in 2019
A review of last year's California state budget shows California Gov.
Gavin Newsom cut funding for wildfire and forest resilience by more than
$100 million.
The budget, signed in June and covering the 2024-25 fiscal year,
eliminated $101 million from seven "wildfire and forest resilience"
programs, according to a report from Newsweek.
The California fires, responsible for destroying more than 10,000
buildings in the Los Angeles area, are still not contained.
CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES DEVASTATE LOS ANGELES COUNTY, KILLING 5 AND
THREATENING THOUSANDS OF HOMES
Cal Fire had a $5 million reduction in spending on fuel reduction teams, including funds used to pay for vegetation management work by the
California National Guard, the report noted.
LA FIRE SOUNDED ALARM ON BUDGET CUTS IMPACTING WILDFIRE RESPONSE: MEMO
Other changes:
$28 million cut from multiple state conservancies that expand wildfire resilience
$12 million cut from a "home hardening" experiment that would protect
homes from wildfires
$8 million cut from monitoring and research spending, mostly dedicated to
Cal Fire and state universities
$4 million cut from the forest legacy program, which encourages landowners
to manage their properties
$3 million cut from funding for an inter-agency forest data hub
Newsom's director of communications, Izzy Gardon, called the budget cuts a "ridiculous lie," in a statement to Fox News Digital Friday night.
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"The governor has doubled the size of our firefighting army, built the
world�s largest aerial firefighting fleet and the state has increased the forest management ten-fold since he took office," she wrote. "Facts
matter."
His office attached statistics that refer to the overall increase in
spending and personnel over a number of years since he took office in
2019, as opposed to commenting on the most recent cuts.
Cal Fire did not immediately respond to a request for comment as of 8 p.m. Friday.
Conversation
DennReid754
59 minutes ago
Somebody has to tell the Democrats that it's not a lie if it's true. Just because of what he did in the past doesn't matter. If he cut the budget in
2024 - 2025, then it's true, he cut the budget, fact not a lie.
passinglead
36 minutes ago
Newscum also had 4 dams destroyed so the Native Americans would have
salmon to catch, refused to build any resivors, refused to clean the
forest of massive amounts of underbrush, and refused to build fire break
for years upon years. This man made disaster has been many, many, many
years in the making. Then Bass cut the fire department funding by 17.6
million dollars, so the fire department did not have the man power or
equipment to fight the fire. Bass, knowing how venerable LA was to a fire Storm, and the weather warnings did not have the National Guard called in immediately. Karen Bass got a $412 million in secured federal funding
from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Clean Ports Program,
which will support efforts to reduce emissions and create a new community-
led zero-emission instead of working to make LA as fire safe as possible
and your people as safe as possible. Well, Bass, how is your air quality
now?
Whoknows2024
28 minutes ago
Agree
Newscum� Did your efforts prevent this tragedy? For once in your life
slick, take ownership for your failures!!!
SamanthaCollins270
34 minutes ago
If this doesn't prompt the people of California to make political changes
in their state, there is no hope for them.
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