President Donald Trump's bid to gut the federal government as the shutdown rages took another turn Monday as a new court filing showed thousands more federal workers faced "imminent" firings.
The Trump administration has already fired thousands of federal workers as a strategy during the shutdown, wielding it as leverage to pressure Democrats in Congress to vote in favor of a stopgap funding measure that would reopen the government.
The Department of the Interior plans to "imminently" fire at least 2,000 employees, Notus reported Monday evening. That includes hundreds working at the National Park Service across the Northeast, Southwest, and Pacific West regions, which oversee Yosemite, Joshua Tree, Acadia, and Great Smoky Mountains national parks.
The report noted that layoff notices have already been sent to more than 3,000 federal workers since the shutdown kicked off.
Last week, a federal judge temporarily blocked the administration from firing workers represented by unions that have sued over the plans.