The decision undermines Trump’s repeated insistence that communities need to clear combustible materials like fallen branches and undergrowth — “it’s called management of the floor,” he said while visiting Los Angeles last month — to guard against wildfires.
Elizabeth Peace, a spokesperson for the Interior Department, said via email that mitigation work is “currently undergoing review to ensure consistency” with Trump’s executive orders.
The scrutiny is being applied only to projects using money from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act, two centerpieces of former President Joe Biden’s administration. They included roughly $3 billion for wildfire mitigation efforts, often known as hazardous fuels reduction programs.
This trash is another example of “real estate developer Trump” coming through.
He honestly believes that he just needs to order “the help” to landscape everything prim and proper to fix wildfires. The fact that “landscaping” millions of acres of wildland is INCOMPREHENSIBLY IDIOTIC simply does not occur to him, and he can never be wrong so he’s sticking with it.
He probably thinks Central Park is a typical forest