A dispute over a Trump administration plan to consolidate federal firefighting operations may be close to resolution, in a sign of modest progress toward Senate passage of a major fiscal 2026 spending package.

Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., said Thursday he was prepared to release his hold on the Interior-Environment bill, a prime candidate for the “minibus” spending package, after cutting a deal to remove language that threatened to delay, if not derail, the firefighting reorganization.

Sheehy, a former firefighting pilot and founder of an aerial firefighting and aerospace services company, is a key backer of the plan and rejected any effort to delay it.

“But we’ve cleared that language, so we should be good now,” he said.

The dispute was just one of several obstacles blocking Senate Major

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