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Democrats, with their friends at KING 5, are setting the stage to blame Donald Trump for Washington wildfires. They hope you don’t realize that it’s Democrats in Olympia that will be to blame for a difficult Washington wildfire season.

As soon as the wildfire season rolls around, you can practically set your watch by the left-wing media鈥檚 desperate attempt to find a way to blame anyone but the actual people in charge. And this time, their target is, of course, President Donald Trump.聽KING 5, always ready to carry water for their friends in Olympia, just ran a piece practically setting the table for the blame game.

Their new boogeyman is the Trump administration’s layoffs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service. The layoffs supposedly making our wildfire season 鈥渕ore challenging,鈥� though they don’t offer any specific challenges faced in Washington yet.

“For the last two years, we have seen concerning snowpack across the state. In 2023, that was driven by the hot May we saw that impacted the water supply in the state,” Caroline Mellor, Statewide Drought Lead with the Washington Department of Ecology, told .

This is the soft launch for the media鈥檚 favorite story template.

“We have less incident management teams available in the region today than we did two years ago. Folks are getting overworked already,” Matthew Dehr, a wildland fire meteorologist with the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR), explained to KING 5. “I’m just a little scared for what this summer might look like without full capabilities from both our incident management teams and our incident meteorologists.”

KING 5, Democrats set stage to blame Trump for Washington wildfires

If we have a bad fire season, the headlines are pre-written. 鈥淕OP Cuts, Trump Policies, Federal Inaction鈥擮h My!鈥澛燗nd yet, as always, there鈥檚 no actual evidence that these supposed federal layoffs will have any measurable impact on our ability to fight wildfires. Not a shred!

It鈥檚 all fear porn for Seattle鈥檚 progressive crowd who treat climate change as both a religion and a convenient way to dodge local responsibility like forest management that clears dead, dry brush.

But here鈥檚 what KING 5鈥攁nd every single Washington Department of Natural Resources official they鈥檙e breathlessly quoting鈥攃onveniently leaves out: it was neither Trump, nor the GOP, that just gutted our state鈥檚 wildfire budget. That was the work of Washington Democratic lawmakers. In fact, it was Washington Republicans, led in part by Rep. Tom Dent (R-Moses Lake), who fought against budget cuts to wildfire prevention.

But Washington Democrats cut wildfire funding

According to , Democrats in Olympia slashed the wildfire budget in half. In coverage, state Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove said the state is prepared to tackle wildfires even with the cuts, “no matter what happens with the budget,” as stated by the聽罢颈尘别蝉听reporter.

Weird that didn’t make it into the KING 5 report.聽No mention of the legislature鈥檚 priorities including billions for so-called 鈥渃limate initiatives鈥� that mostly enrich consultants, but when it comes to boots-on-the-ground wildfire response鈥攕uddenly it鈥檚 time to tighten the belt.

Luckily, some local media doesn’t always choose to serve as publicists for Democrats. in Spokane did what KING 5 refused to: honestly frame the issue around threats to wildfire prevention due to Democrats’ cutting the budget.

See through the propaganda

Maybe Democrats figured that as long as they get to grandstand about 鈥渇ederal cuts,鈥� nobody will notice they鈥檙e actually leaving us less prepared. Perhaps Upthegrove was lying about wildfire preparedness to spare Democrats from criticism? Or he was being uncharacteristically honest and KING 5 is contriving news to satiate its left-wing audience who hates Trump?

Wildfire season isn鈥檛 about federal inaction. It鈥檚 about local mismanagement, budget cuts, and a press that鈥檚 too busy playing defense for their friends in power to ask even the most basic, obvious questions.

But hey鈥攁t least they have someone to blame when Democrats’ own policies, as always, go up in smoke.

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