Fox News: Gov. Newsom cut fire budget by $100M months before lethal California fires

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Gov. Newsom cut fire budget by $100M months before lethal California fires

A review of California Gov. Newsom's budget cuts shows fire prevention funding was reduced substantially just months before the California fires.......                    ...                        ...A review of last year's California state budget shows California You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login cut funding for wildfire and forest resilience by more than $100 million.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, 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 You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login area, are still not contained.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......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 You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, the report noted.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Other changes:......Newsom's director of communications, Izzy Gardon, called the budget cuts a "ridiculous lie," in a statement to Fox News Digital Friday night.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"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....

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