One of the major failures of the Democratic Party, to my mind, is they have not figured out how to make Americans aware of all the wellbeing fostering things Joe Biden has done in his first term. Mostly, they haven’t even tried. I consider this to be a major failure because, on the basis of objectively verifiable data, and in spite of the reckless Republican opposition, Biden has achieved many dramatic wellbeing fostering good news achievements. Nowhere is this made clearer than how, at a time when North America is facing an unprecedented level of forest fires, Biden recognized the contribution fire fighters have made to the nation’s wellbeing. I would be surprised if 10 per cent of Americans even knew about this. And even fewer seem to realize that Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema, who has left the Democratic Party and become an independent, accompanied by a small group of other senators, is now actively seeking to sabotage what Biden has done.
At the height of fire season and amid record shattering temperatures, a bipartisan group of senators led by Kyrsten Sinema (I-Az.), has framed a new bill related to firefighter pay as a boon for the wildland workforce. In reality, the bill would result in a major pay cut to federal firefighters who saw their wages increase under President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill.
The 2021 law included a temporary but significant increase in firefighters’ take-home pay: 50 percent or $20,000, depending on a worker’s pay grade. That boost is set to lapse in September, and lawmakers have introduced the Wildland Firefighter Paycheck Protection Act to soften the blow. The bill would split the difference between the pay wildland firefighters received prior to 2021 and their increased wages of the last two years.
There are tens of thousands of federal firefighters spread across the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau […]