
Week 1, Montana Senator Aims to Fix Fed Firefighting Policy
His first full week in the US Senate, and Senator Tim Sheehy (R-MT) is showing the nation exactly why Montanans booted a 3 term incumbent and gave the fresh faced Navy SEAL and aerial firefighter a shot at getting our country on track.
If you missed it, Senator Sheehy joined nationally syndicated radio talk show host Mark Levin and Laura Ingraham on Fox News to talk about fixing our nation's strategy to fight wildfires. Sheehy is not just a Navy SEAL veteran and entrepreneur, he's also an aerial firefighter who founded Bridger Aerospace in Belgrade, Montana.
As the fires still burned in Los Angeles, California- CNN even had Sheehy on the air: CNN- "Montana elected a firefighter to the Senate. He’s already pushing for solutions"
Click here for the Laura Ingraham interview on Fox News if the video doesn't appear below.
Here's part of what Senator Sheehy told Mark Levin:
Senator Sheehy: "We're seeing these left wing lunatic policies in California, and the accumulation of these policies has impacts. When you have endangered species acts, you know, that prioritizes the Eurasian snail snail fish over water pressure and fire hydrants, and we don't have enough water to fight fires- that has an impact. When you cordon off forests and say, you can't touch these, you can't log these, you can't have roads in these. Guess what? You can't fight a fire if there's no road going in the forest. When you cut our aerial firefighting fleet, our airtanker fleet, in half, which is what we've done last 20 years- guess what, we have less planes to fight fire. So these wrong headed policies have impacts."
Senator Sheehy was on with Levin shortly after he and his fellow Republican Senators met with President Trump. Sheehy spoke with Trump about the fires burning in Los Angeles, and other major fires that have devastated the country within the past year or so.
Senator Sheehy: "This is a disgrace. We can do it better. I spoke to President Trump just about an hour ago during our meeting about it, and he is 100% behind us. We're going to fix this problem. We're going to do it fast."
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