I'm just a citizen loud mouth on mastodon but it's kinda amazing how much of the media is calling the budget cut fake news. It is not.

All the media takes such as the BET one below, point to the idea that the budget could be added to at a later date and reason that it wasn't a budget cut.

Look, its not even debatable. LAFD's budget was CUT by $17M+.

When you take budget and replace it with an IOU that is by definition a budget cut.

https://www.bet.com/article/pgykqa/la-mayor-karen-bass-palisades-fire

#KarenBass #BET #LAFD

More to the point, here's the receipts on the LA Fire Department's budget cuts.

The fire chief wrote a 20+ page report on how the cuts were real and seriously impact their ability to fight big fires. They literally had to cut pilot training hours for airborne fire fighters.

https://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2024/24-1600_rpt_bfc_12-17-24.pdf

#LA #LAFD #KarenBass #KristinCrowley #LAFires #acab

LA Mayor Karen Bass recently pushed for and won a budget where LA Fire Department saw it's budget cut by $17M.

Meanwhile the LA police budget was increased by $138M.

Maybe cutting the fire department's budget to continue over funding the pigs was a bad idea.

#LA #LAFire #KarenBass #ACAB