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Thousands descend on U.S. national parks to protest firings - National | Globalnews.ca

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President Donald Trump ’s administration has, so far, slashed about 1,000 National Park Service jobs and fired an additional 2,000 recently hired employees within the U.S. Forest Service .

At least 145 of the country's 433 national parks saw protests over the weekend .

The protests come amid what has been a chaotic rollout of an aggressive program to eliminate thousands of federal jobs.