Newsom Diverted Taxpayer Funds That Could Have Stopped Palisades Fires

While a portion of the Tribal Wildfire Resilience funding has been directed toward traditional wildfire prevention and land-management efforts, critics argue that a closer review of state grant records raises serious questions about how much of the money is actually being spent on fire mitigation.

According to those critics, some grants appear only loosely connected to wildfire resilience, leading to allegations that the program has evolved beyond its stated purpose and is functioning as a taxpayer-supported slush fund to tribes, City Journal reports.

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In recent years, CalFire has awarded grants that have dubious fire-management benefits: $1 million for a grant that will help a tribe provide “forest-themed ingredients” to tribe-owned