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The Department of the Interior has plans to further layoff 2,050 union employees.

Among those are 272 National Park Service workers and nearly 500 from the BLM.

The BLM in Utah would lose 12% of its total workforce.

The Department of the Interior has plans to fire at least an additional 2,050 employees “imminently,” it wrote in a declaration filed in federal court on Monday.

Workers from the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Geological Survey, among others, are included in the pending workforce cull.

“Since the start of the current administration, with several court-ordered pauses, the Department of the Interior has repeatedly reviewed and evaluated its current workforce and its departmental needs,” wrote a Department of the Interior spokesperson in

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