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President trump wants to slash firefighters, funding, FEMA disaster relief

When Climate Change has increased wildfire seasons along the

West Coast States, his decision is nothing more than a political

move against progressive states.

 

Trump Cuts Firefighters

 

Trump decides to cut over 1,000 firefighters, the biggest cut in a decade. While the West Coast is threatened with another hot and dry summer, wildfire season will be horrible. And it is only a matter of time when a horrible fire will happen.  Trump has also threatened to refrain from any federal assistance for wildfires. This action by Trump and his polices have deepened the hostility between Trump and the West Coast states.

Trumps latest attempt in what seems to undercut wildfire preparedness includes ending a federal program that trains young people for jobs including wildfire fighting, while at the same time withholding wildfire reimbursements California officials say are owed from last year. Why would Trump withhold disaster relief from the victims on the west coast could it be because they never voted for him I think it is his way of punishing the more liberal states.

A  move which was not projected by the mainstream media ---In an announcement buried on the Friday before the Memorial Day weekend, the Trump administration announced that it will end a program under the Forest Service, run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers (CCCs) train young people between the ages 16 to 24 in rural and disadvantaged areas for jobs including wildland firefighting and forestry, in addition to disaster recovery. The 25 centers are mainly in the South and West and located on federal lands, with more than 3,000 students employed by the program.

Nine of the centers will close, with another 16 set to move to state control or to be taken over by private entities, as control of the program shifts to the Labor Department. Centers in Washington, Oregon, Kentucky, Montana, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Virginia, and North Carolina are all slated for closure. Roughly 1,100 jobs will be lost — potentially the largest federal workforce reduction in a decade. Again his decisions are based his political agenda and will affect the most vulnerable populations in rural  progressive America, Or a way to give more money to his space program? To protect us from aliens.

Because of Climate Change, Wildfires have become considerably more deadly and destructive in the last few years, with fire season now considered to run virtually year-round amid worsening climate impacts. But the president ignores and claims that there is no such thing as climate change, even as he walked through the massive destruction of the California fires, among the devastation of lost lives and lives. His comment was directed to the elected officials of California and the Forest service you should have raked the forest. What a Moran.

The reduction in wildfire assistance comes amid ongoing sparring between Trump and California, Trump hates California because they do not support his policies. Last November, the president largely blamed the state for its wildfire problems, accusing California of “gross mismanagement of the forests” and threatening to withhold federal aid.  Yet the forests were federal forests and the responsibility of the federal government. Besides you can only manage so much of forests. Now, the Forest Service is accusing California of overbilling with its $72 million reimbursement request, money the state owes its fire agencies for last year’s work on federal lands.

The federal government is now withholding more than $9 million of the total amount requested from California, they are now demanding actual proof of the costs. That is a political move by the President, his bullying and get back at ya, is clearly present in this issue. Trump is an arrogant, brat, with an IQ of about 50. His get even thoughts are counterproductive and should be halted. He is the one that sent the Forest Service after California again a political move either support me or suffer the consequences.

According to the National Interagency Fire Center,  Besides California, other  states that needs to be on heightened alert for wildfires over the next few months. Areas across the West — Washington, including parts of Oregon, which is losing a CCC — are at risk. Warming temperatures in Alaska, meanwhile, have made the state more vulnerable to wildfires, with southeast Alaska currently experiencing its first recorded extreme drought in history. Climate Change has grabbed onto the regions which are usually wet and cooler, and have timber that will burn. These areas are a tinder box waiting to be ignited.

The punishment Trump is inflicting on to the West Coast states is shameful. His actions will cost the lives of Americans needlessly; the cost to rebuild these areas will be in the billions. So why cut jobs, money and resources when it is apparent that the disaster happened and that there will be more of the same types of horrific natural disasters in these regions.

The simple answer is--- punishment-- by a dictator, because these regions do not and did not support his presidential campaigns and do not support him now on his policies. Trump is a vindictive tyrant, who cares nothing for anyone but himself, his family and his rich friends.

Trump is a stain on America and the world.

 

Tammy

 

 

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