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Setting low-grade fires, known as prescribed burns, can help clear out overgrown brush and dead material that fuels more extreme wildfires. In 2025, controlled burning fell by almost half under the Trump administration.
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Many of the nation's overgrown forests are at high risk of burning. Under the Trump administration, work to reduce flammable vegetation fell by more than a million acres compared to previous years.
Outside a polling place in West Lafayette, Ind., Republican state Sen. Spencer Deery greets voters arriving for early voting on April 28. Deery is a Republican incumbent President Trump has targeted after he opposed the president's redistricting push in Indiana.
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After Republicans blocked Indiana redistricting, millions poured in to defeat them
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Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., speaks at a Turning Point USA event in Phoenix on April 17. Biggs, who is running for governor in Arizona, voted not to certify the 2020 election as a member of the U.S. House.
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