WASHINGTON, D.C. – There’s an old saying that 'politics makes strange bedfellows.”

Even in Washington, it doesn’t get much stranger than a joint, bipartisan appeal to the Trump administration from Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA).

That appeal is in a good cause, however, requesting that that Secretary Brooke Rollins of the U.S. Department of Agriculture address staffing shortages in the U.S. Forest Service by expanding its firefighting capacity.

“As the 2025 wildfire season intensifies,” the senators wrote in a letter to Rollins dated Aug. 29, “timely certification is critical to ensuring that qualified firefighting personnel can be mobilized without delay.”

In that letter, Curtis and Schiff urged Rollins to increase the number of Incident Qualification Cards – which

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