Job offers have been rescinded and start dates pushed back just as firefighting staffing for the summer wildfire season was beginning, a union said.

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Even with the exception to employees in public safety, the NFFE says its members — who are firefighters — are at risk of losing their jobs during the federal freeze. The NFFE

Washington state is home to three national parks that rely on seasonal workers in the summer when there are hundreds of thousands of visitors.

President Trump signed an executive order last month enacting a hiring freeze for federal employees. The memorandum is set to expire in 90 days for every department and agency besides the Internal

This year, Pennsylvanians can use the new IRS Direct File tool to file simple federal and state tax returns for free. The tool was piloted in some states in 2024, and the IRS rolled it out to 13 more for this year’s tax filing season.

The Trump administration’s federal hiring freeze has stopped the onboarding of thousands of seasonal federal firefighters as the next fire season approaches.

Trump’s executive order that he signed on January 20 does offer an exemption to positions related to “public safety” but somehow firefighters do not apply. According to NBC’s conversations with people working within the Bureau of Land Management,