{"id":2389425,"date":"2025-01-12T17:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T22:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/barrasso-vows-no-blank-check-for-wildfire-aid-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T17:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T22:49:12","slug":"barrasso-vows-no-blank-check-for-wildfire-aid-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/barrasso-vows-no-blank-check-for-wildfire-aid-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrasso vows no \u2018blank check\u2019 for wildfire aid &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbarrasso-vows-no-blank-check-for-wildfire-aid-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2389425&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The provided text seems to consist of a mix \u2064of HTML and XML code intended for a \u2062website interface. 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Gavin Newsom (D-CA), have been slammed by Republicans throughout the past week as new information has come out about the state&rsquo;s budget, including the state <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-and-environment\/3283952\/newsom-goes-on-offense-after-la-fire-management-criticism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"cutting\">cutting<\/a> $100 million away from wildfire and forest resilience.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Newsom has attempted to combat some of the allegations, but he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/infrastructure\/3284246\/nbc-fact-checks-newsom-trump-misinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"subject \">subject <\/a>to a fact-check by a reporter earlier Sunday that a reservoir in the Palisades was indeed not full, something President-elect Donald Trump pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-and-environment\/3284212\/california-wildfires-death-toll-rises-16-strong-winds-expected-monday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"death toll\">death toll<\/a> from the wildfires is now at 16 as strong winds are expected on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1932032\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1932032\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barrasso opposes &#8216;blank check&#8217; for California wildfire aid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3359,"featured_media":2389426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24039686548522-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[9008,42075,10721,32076,48377],"class_list":["post-2389425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-barrasso","tag-disaster-relief","tag-government-funding","tag-washington-examiner","tag-wildfire-aid"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24039686548522-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389429,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389425\/revisions\/2389429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2389426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}