The West is burning, and Congress is responding with a fire hose of money. The bipartisan infrastructure deal that advanced yesterday through the Senate would spend billions of dollars on wildfire policy, with much of it earmarked for cutting trees and planting new ones. Some experts warn that approach could backfire. “The infrastructure package, as written, is wrongheaded on so many levels. It’s a climate change nightmare,” said Chad Hanson, a forest ecologist and co-founder of the John Muir Project. The legislation has inflamed a long-running debate about how fire should coexist with forests — and humans. Many state and federal officials blame recent wildfires on forests that are overloaded with dead vegetation. California alone saw some 130 million trees die in the last decade. Their solution, backed by the wood industry, is to remove that fuel from the forest before it burns.