Trump promised California $500 million extra for fire prevention - It was total BS

Mod: Trump might have forgotten the name of Paradise, CA, and his rake the forest thing did make the whole world laugh. But promise California a half a billion dollars to fight wild fires when that money doesn't even exist? Now that is just wrong.

Trump promised California $500 million extra for fire prevention. It was an error (Sacramento Beelink): After touring the devastation of the Camp Fire in Paradise, Calif. on Saturday, President Donald Trump announced that the federal government would provide an additional $500 million in funding to the 2018 farm bill for forest management to help mitigate future fires.

Back in Washington, however, no one seems to know what he’s talking about.

“$500 million. That will be in the farm bill. We just put it in,” Trump told reporters at the Incident Command Post for the Camp Fire in Chico, Calif on Nov. 17. “We have a new category, and that’s management and maintenance of the forests. It’s very important.”

The president repeated the figure during a stop in Malibu, Calif, where the Woolsey Fire has burned roughly 100,000 acres, later the same day. “So we’re putting in the farm bill, $500 million,” Trump said, according to a White House transcript.

“I’m not sure where he got that from,” said one congressional aide, who was not authorized to speak on the record, echoing the sentiment of a number of colleagues on Capitol Hill.

The reality is that there is no such funding provision in the 2018 Farm Bill, which authorizes federal agriculture and land management programs but does not appropriate funds. That requires separate spending legislation, a congressional source familiar with the Farm Bill confirmed.

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