A dispute over a Trump administration plan to consolidate federal firefighting operations may be close to resolution, in a sign of modest progress toward Senate passage of a major fiscal 2026 spending package.
Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., said Thursday he was prepared to release his hold on the Interior-Environment bill, a prime candidate for the “minibus” spending package, after cutting a deal to remove language that threatened to delay, if not derail, the firefighting reorganization.
Sheehy, a former firefighting pilot and founder of an aerial firefighting and aerospace services company, is a key backer of the plan and rejected any effort to delay it.
