White House Plans to Fire Hundreds More From National Park Service

October 21, 2025

Since taking office in January,President Trump’s administration has fired nearly a quarter, or 24%, of the National Park Service’s workforce.

Now the White House is planning to shed even more parks workers.

The U.S. Department of the Interior will “imminently abolish” more than 2,000 employees across the agency, including hundreds of people working at the National Park Service (NPS), the agency said in a Monday legal filing. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s planned staff cuts include 272 NPS staff in regional offices and positions directly supporting maintenance projects and cultural and natural resource protection.

The filings were submitted in response to a federal court order, which came after a judge temporarily blocked the administration’s attempt to lay off thousands of federal workers during the ongoing government shutdown.

The numbers reported include only certain union-represented employees under the current court order. That means the overall number of planned staff reductions is likely much larger, according to an analysis by the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA). Gear Junkie