As part of his remarks calling for cuts in federal spending to narrow a deficit ballooned by tax cuts, President Donald Trump threatened to cut funding for fighting California’s wildfires. The president insisted the state has spent too much on fighting wildfires as the state faces longer and more intense fire seasons. “Old trees are sitting there rotting and dry instead of cleaning them up they don’t touch them,” he said at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. The threat of wildfires in California is no longer contained to the summer and fall months, as last December’s Thomas Fire in Southern California proved. Experts have pointed toward climate change and years of California drought as part of the reason for the greater fire danger.