The point is Trump will never do anything that isn’t for deeply personal reasons. And he would never do anything solely to save money on the budget, he doesn’t care about that at all. So either he does this out of pure spite, because it is a “liberal” thing, or more likely he does it because he has been bribed by whatever industries are eager to turn all that forest into shortsighted profit.
Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet.
errer@lemmy.world 2 days agoIt’s actually $9B a year…which I wouldn’t call “minuscule” like PBS was.
Rothe@piefed.social 2 days ago
errer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Fine. But calling 9 billion dollars, an amount of money most people can’t even fathom, “minuscule” is pretty stupid.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 days ago
In the federal budget context, that is literally a few dollars. It is super disingenuous to compare it to the budget of a single person.
d00ery@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Wildland Fire Management and the Wildfire Adjustment
The largest share of FS appropriations goes to the WFM account. The WFM appropriation funds preparedness, or fire prevention, detection, equipment and training; wildfire suppression; and salaries and expenses.
Overall, in FY2025, 51% of the agency’s discretionary appropriations, including supplemental appropriations, were provided for these two accounts (26% WFM, 25% wildfire adjustment).
AugustWest@lemmy.world 2 days ago
0.1% of annual spending is minuscule.