US Senate Dems from Western states blast Trump budget for cutting federal aid
Jim Cik fly fishes in Glacier Lake in the Mission Mountains Wilderness in Flathead National Forest on June 27, 2020. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Casey Kreider
Members of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee differed along party lines at a Thursday hearing about how the U.S. Forest Service should partner with states and how the federal wildfire response should be organized.
Senators of both parties emphasized the importance of working with state forest managers. But while Republicans praised the efforts of Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz, a former state forest administrator in Idaho and Montana, to reach out to state governments, Democrats noted that President Donald Trump’s budget request for fiscal 2026 proposed eliminating a key program for state and tribal partnerships.
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