‘Hire back park staff’: Visitors really feel the pinch of Trump’s layoffs at National Park Service

America’s most treasured nationwide parks are getting crunched by Trump’s government-shrinking layoffs simply because the summer season journey season will get into full swing.

Top officers vowed to rent hundreds of seasonal workers to choose up the slack after the Trump administration fired round 1,000 NPS workers as a part of wide-ranging federal firings often called the “Valentine’s Day Massacre.” Department of Interior officers stated in a February memo they might goal to rent 7,700 seasonal staff at NPS, and put up listings for 9,000 jobs.

But these numbers haven’t materialized forward of July 4th — the parks’ busiest time of the yr. Internal National Park Service information supplied to CNN by the National Parks Conservation Association exhibits that about 4,500 seasonal and momentary workers have been employed.

CNN’s Danny Freeman speaks with Bob Krumenaker, former superintendent of Big Bend National Park and longtime National Park Service worker. #CNN #News