{"id":259086,"date":"2025-07-05T15:04:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T14:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/hire-back-park-staff-visitors-feel-the-pinch-of-trumps-layoffs-at-national-park-service\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T15:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T14:04:45","slug":"hire-back-park-staff-visitors-feel-the-pinch-of-trumps-layoffs-at-national-park-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/hire-back-park-staff-visitors-feel-the-pinch-of-trumps-layoffs-at-national-park-service\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hire back park staff\u2019: Visitors feel the pinch of Trump\u2019s layoffs at National Park Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/I6gsv7Crpsk\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Hire back park staff\u2019: Visitors feel the pinch of Trump\u2019s layoffs at National Park Service\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I6gsv7Crpsk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s most treasured national parks are getting crunched by Trump\u2019s government-shrinking layoffs just as the summer travel season gets into full swing.<\/p>\n<p>Top officials vowed to hire thousands of seasonal employees to pick up the slack after the Trump administration fired around 1,000 NPS employees as part of wide-ranging federal firings known as the \u201cValentine\u2019s Day Massacre.\u201d Department of Interior officials said in a February memo they would aim to hire 7,700 seasonal workers at NPS, and post listings for 9,000 jobs. <\/p>\n<p>But those numbers haven\u2019t materialized ahead of July 4th \u2014 the parks\u2019 busiest time of the year. Internal National Park Service data provided to CNN by the National Parks Conservation Association shows that about 4,500 seasonal and temporary staff have been hired.<\/p>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s Danny Freeman speaks with Bob Krumenaker, former superintendent of Big Bend National Park and longtime National Park Service employee. #CNN #News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s most treasured national parks are getting crunched by Trump\u2019s government-shrinking layoffs just as the summer travel season gets into full swing. Top officials vowed to hire thousands of seasonal employees to pick up the slack after the Trump administration fired around 1,000 NPS employees as part of wide-ranging federal firings known as the \u201cValentine\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":259087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[132997,129147,145970],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-259086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn","tag-americas","tag-most","tag-treasured"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Hire back park staff\u2019: Visitors feel the pinch of Trump\u2019s layoffs at National Park Service | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch \u2018Hire back park staff\u2019: Visitors feel the pinch of Trump\u2019s layoffs at National Park Service for free, here on News ISC. 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