{"id":33455,"date":"2025-02-15T20:23:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T20:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/us-forest-service-and-national-park-service-to-fire-thousands-of-workers\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T20:23:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T20:23:50","slug":"us-forest-service-and-national-park-service-to-fire-thousands-of-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/us-forest-service-and-national-park-service-to-fire-thousands-of-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"US Forest Service and National Park Service to fire thousands of workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies say Trump\u2019s latest push to trim government could impede firefighting efforts and create crises at national parks<\/p>\n<p>The US Forest Service is firing about 3,400 recent hires while the National Park Service is terminating about 1,000 workers under Donald Trump\u2019s push to cut federal spending and bureaucracy, according to a report on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The terminations target employees who are in their probationary employment periods, which includes anyone hired less than a year ago, according to Reuters, and will affect sites such as the Appalachian trail, Yellowstone, the birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr and the Sequoia national forest.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/15\/us-forest-service-national-park-service-layoffs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies say Trump\u2019s latest push to trim government could impede firefighting efforts and create crises at national parks The US Forest Service is firing about 3,400 recent hires while the National Park Service is terminating about 1,000 workers under Donald Trump\u2019s push to cut federal spending and bureaucracy, according to a report on Friday. The &#8230; <a title=\"US Forest Service and National Park Service to fire thousands of workers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/us-forest-service-and-national-park-service-to-fire-thousands-of-workers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US Forest Service and National Park Service to fire thousands of workers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}