{"id":86727,"date":"2019-09-09T20:52:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T03:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=86727"},"modified":"2019-09-09T20:52:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T03:52:45","slug":"governor-newsom-on-trump-administrations-plan-to-divert-funds-for-national-guard-wildfire-fighting-to-build-border-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=86727","title":{"rendered":"Governor Newsom on Trump Administration\u2019s Plan to Divert Funds for National Guard Wildfire Fighting to Build Border Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;Governor Gavin Newsom issued the following statement on Sept. 5th following new details emerging on the Trump Administration\u2019s plan to use military construction funds to build a border wall. The plan, which was released this week, will divert $8 million in funding to build the California National Guard\u2019s 146th Airlift Wing flight simulator for C-130J pilots and aircrew members, a critical tool that is used to train and prepare National Guard pilots to provide swift response and assistance during wildfires and other emergencies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/220px-Gavin_Newsom_official_photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"329\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/220px-Gavin_Newsom_official_photo.jpg 220w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/220px-Gavin_Newsom_official_photo-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of focusing on the real threats of wildfires, earthquakes and other natural or man-made disasters, the President is throwing away millions of dollars in critical funds so he can build a giant vanity project that will not make anyone safer. It\u2019s totally backwards, and puts Californians\u2019 safety at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 146th Airlift Wing simulator would have trained pilots and aircrew members to fly C-130J planes to enhance their flying skills and reduce their risk during lifesaving and emergency missions in California and while deployed around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;Governor Gavin Newsom issued the following statement on Sept. 5th following new details emerging on the Trump Administration\u2019s plan to use military construction funds to build a border wall. The plan, which was released this week, will divert $8 million in funding to build the California National Guard\u2019s 146th Airlift Wing flight simulator for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/220px-Gavin_Newsom_official_photo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}