WASHINGTON — The Interior Department announced Monday it will pause efforts to lay off 2,050 employees throughout the country, after a federal judge expanded a temporary restraining order late last week.
The new filing provides more information about how the Trump administration plans to reduce the size and scope of a department that oversees much of the country’s public lands.
Rachel Borra, chief human capital officer at Interior, wrote in a 35-page document the layoffs would affect employees at the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service and U.S. Geological Survey, among others.
The National Park Service layoffs would target several areas of the country, including 63 of 224 workers at the Northeast regional office, 69