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

America’s astir treasured nationalist parks are getting crunched by Trump’s government-shrinking layoffs conscionable arsenic the summertime question play gets into afloat swing. Top officials vowed to prosecute thousands of seasonal employees to prime up the slack aft the Trump medication fired astir 1,000 NPS employees arsenic portion of wide-ranging national firings known arsenic the “Valentine’s Day Massacre.” Department of Interior officials said successful a February memo they would purpose to prosecute 7,700 seasonal workers astatine NPS, and station listings for 9,000 jobs. But those numbers haven’t materialized up of July 4th — the parks’ busiest clip of the year. Internal National Park Service information provided to CNN by the National Parks Conservation Association shows that astir 4,500 seasonal and impermanent unit person been hired. CNN's Danny Freeman speaks with Bob Krumenaker, erstwhile superintendent of Big Bend National Park and longtime National Park Service employee. #CNN #News