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Podcast: The State of California
Episode: How will DOGE's mass staffing cuts affect our National Parks?
Description: The Trump administration says it will hire more seasonal workers than usual to staff the national parks, after laying off hundreds of park employees. But park rangers and other workers at Yosemite, and across the country, are up in arms over their sudden firings, which in many cases will leave them homeless too.
This is all part of the Trump-Elon Musk DOGE “government efficiency plan” which has seen tens of thousands of federal employees summarily dismissed over the last few weeks.
At Yosemite, angry workers hung an upside down American flag on El Capitan over the weekend, a sign of dist...