Among forest management projects aimed at mitigating the risk of Wildfee is one of those projects to freeze spending under President Trump's executive order.
A letter to the Trump administration on monday14 Democrats wrote that “The Bureau of Land Management has listened to the “Rand Management Bureau's issue a halt work order” for a project aimed at reducing the risk of wildfires. Masu.
A statement from the Bureau of Land Management confirmed that some projects (projects funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act) are “reviewed to ensure consistency with the executive order.” However, the Land Management Bureau said the project, funded by the usual council spending process, is “moving beyond the West.”
The Democratic letters were led by Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif), Adam Schiff (D-Calif), Jeff Markley (D-ore.), and Martin Heinrich (DN.M.). .
In it, they and ten colleagues raise concerns that halting the program could pose a risk of wildfires and argue that the order is unconstitutional.
“We are pleading to withdraw orders to halt these dangerous fuel reduction efforts and other wild fire management programs that work to protect communities from catastrophic wildfires. “I will,” they wrote Doug Burgham and Acting Agriculture Secretary Gary Washington in a letter to the Secretary of the Interior.
The Water Storage Management Act “prohibits actions or omissions that prohibit federal funds from being mandated or used forever, either temporarily or permanently.
The letter comes after a devastating wildfire that recently hit California. Kill at least 29. It also means a federal judge in Rhode Island has ordered the Trump administration to freeze federal grants.
