This is a strawman. I do not like the current administration, but attempting to blame everything on them is intellectually lazy.

The fires in California are not caused due to bad budget cuts over the past few years, but rather the mistaken environmentalist policy of not allowing controlled burns for the last 100 years and extinguishing natural fires out of needless heroics to save species that are now in ever more need of saving: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/californ...

The "10 am" policy, and the opposition to controlled burns are not coming from environmentalists (Just try googling "endagered species fire"... https://www.mass.gov/news/fire-prescribed-for-habitat-manage... ... many endangered species rely on fire, and we have known this for 50 years).

It's property owners who are opposed to prescribed burns, because there is a risk of prescribed burns getting out of control. From wikipedia: "In 1978, the Forest Service abandoned the 10:00 am policy in favor of a new policy that encouraged the use of wildland fire by prescription.[1][13]

Three events between 1978 and 1988 precipitated a major fire use policy review in 1989: the Ouzel fire in Rocky Mountain National Park, the Yellowstone fires of 1988 in and around Yellowstone National Park, and the Canyon Creek fire in the Bob Marshall Wilderness on the Lewis and Clark National Forest. In all three cases, monitored fires burned until they threatened developed areas."

those events caused a backlash against controlled burns, because obviously it's hard to sell the public that some destruction of property now is better than more of it later.