The Biden administration wants additional funding from Congress for Ukraine, extreme weather, and the border.
Currently, wildfire firefighters are working under a temporary pay increase, which will expire by October.
"The administration is committed to building a more robust and resilient wildland firefighter workforce and fairly compensate wildland firefighters' difficult and dangerous work that they do.
"We've seen bipartisan understanding of the need to provide firefighter pay to prevent a cliff," the official said.
On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced the Wildland Firefighter Paycheck Protection Act, which would make pay increases for firefighters permanent.
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