New burn bans and Trump's battle with immigration and DEI are impacting forest fires
sued](https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/court-filings/massachusetts-et-al-v-united-states-department-of-agriculture-complaint-2026.pdf) the USDA to block the new terms for receiving federal funding, which the states characterized as coercive.
Since the Community Wildfire Defense Grant program was launched in 2022, funded