National Park Service restores some jobs of fired employees, pledges to hire 7,700 seasonal workers
Source: AP
Updated 7:34 PM EST, February 21, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is restoring jobs for dozens of National Park Service employees fired amid government-wide reductions and hiring nearly 3,000 additional seasonal workers, following an uproar over an aggressive plan to downsize the agency.
At least 50 jobs are being restored to help maintain and clean parks, educate visitors and collect admission fees, according to two people familiar with the agency’s plans who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
The moves come as the park service said in a new memo that it will hire up to 7,700 seasonal positions this year, up from about 5,000 promised earlier this week and higher than the three-year average of 6,350 seasonal workers. The park service has about 20,000 employees.
Lawmakers and advocacy groups have criticized the widespread layoffs as unnecessary and a threat to public safety and the parks themselves. Colorado’s Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, which is located west of Colorado Springs and gets about 70,000 visitors annually, announced on social media that effective Monday it will close two days a week due to “lack of staffing.” “These roles are critical to protecting America’s treasured natural assets, maintaining public safety and promoting exceptional standards,” said a letter signed by Virginia’s two Democratic senators and six Democratic House members.
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and we are gearing up for it... except 45 decided to lay off a bunch of NPS staff that work the Independence Hall/Independence Mall area.
by Meir Rinde February 18, 2025
Independence Hall's rear facade. (Danya Henninger/Billy Penn)
(Ed. that is a back view of it)
The Trump administration’s mass firings of federal workers have reached the Philadelphia area, with two employees dismissed at Independence National Historical Park and at least one at a local Federal Aviation Administration office, according to union officials.
At the national park, which was already operating about 30 workers below its budgeted staffing, two recent hires — both park rangers — received termination notices late last week, and a number of planned hirings have been rescinded.
The popular park was already lacking enough rangers, guides, and maintenance and safety workers to operate at full strength, said Edward Welch, a ranger at the park and president of Local 2058 of the American Federation of Government Employees.
“We’re in a hole. As it is now, half the historic structures are closed,” Welch said. “If this continues, I can’t fathom what other structures we’re going to need to close, because we can’t function on a wing and a prayer. We’re bare bone now.”
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I heard a news story here earlier in the week discussing the preps and a concern about the feds pulling their contribution money (the city has budgeted its own money for some events associated with it).
... with no regard for the consequences, except maybe as an afterthought, if we're lucky. It isn't just the lawlessness of this "shock and awe" chainsaw, but the utter stupidity... 
Since they were fired with out cause (blanket "poor performance"
, TSF administration is going to face litigation on each firing. There is probably going to be a lot of back pay with interest, and some punitive damages and attorney fees that the government will be paying. This should crimp the tax cuts that are planned.
These people (MAGAs) are dumb fucks. Just like the last time, good luck finding work after they leave the government.
