BREAKING: How Trump Plans To Use Wildfires To Redraw American Federalism

Revealing how the Trump administration is using wildfire policy to reshape emergency response — and expand federal authority in key blue and purple states.

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Scroll to the end of the post for a free, downloadable “Strategic Briefing” of structural shifts from the Executive Orders, and a downloadable summary of this post.

What we’ll cover here:

1. Executive Order: Achieving Efficiency Through State and Local Preparedness

   1. What the order did

   2. What this means in practice

   3. Why does it matter?

2. Executive Order: Empowering Commonsense Wildfire Prevention and Response

3. What to Expect

4. What’s Likely to Follow

Dear friends

Earlier this week I wrote that there is work to be done. This post outlines a key area that seems to have slipped through the cracks. It needs your urgent attention, especially if you live in a region prone to wildfires — truly, we do not have days to waste.

As I write, a record-setting heat dome is spreading ac…