The impact has also reached the national park service. An employee is ready to make a trip to monitor the road maintenance at a national monument when the change takes effect on February 20. Unless I want to pay for it myself, I cannot go. I can't pay for my hotel, my rental car, fuel for the car. Now I cannot perform the mission, the staff said. Today, instead of focusing on other jobs, I focus on three different reserves on how to handle this. Do I go? Did I call my technical group and tell them to schedule it again? And if so, when? The project is being kept unknown.
A memorandum is written to staff at the National Park Service providing that all trips are not related to national security, public safety or immigration, so it will be canceled if starting on Wednesday, February 26, until the end of March 2025. A long -term decision on tourism policy, it says, will come one day later. Some NPS employees were able to travel in February although they did not receive official site clearance. Now they have been informed that no tourism will be allowed in March. So far, about 75 trips have been canceled or scheduled, according to a familiar source with the situation.
National park service did not respond to a comment request from Wired.
Some government employees said they were issued a warning before the change was published on February 20. There was a common recognition that everything would be broken.
The employee works in the Western Pacific region, where the federal land management in California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Nevada, as well as parks in Arizona, Montana, Guam and Samoa American. Although GSA has allowed an exception to the clamping down, the staff announced that there were only four buy cards with limit spending on $ 1 for the entire area.
Some of these parks pay for services such as the Internet and wirelessly on the purchase card, the staff do not wonder if their working equipment may be cut soon. Before someone can repair a bathroom, a job order must be issued, the current employee explains. That happens by electronic. Like any business, we rely on email, team and chat to get the job done.
Spending limit reflects Musk's beliefs on air -based budget. After he bought Twitter, he cut the budget to zero and forced the employee to justify all expenses. He also froze the credit card of everyone's company.
With Twitter suspending the payment, at some point we were at a meeting at 1:00 am on Saturday, and it was like, 'Hey, let's turn off the credit card to see what is returned, and what happens, “Angel Jason investor explained about All in Podcast in February. .
Staff see it differently. There are many control measures to ensure fraud does not occur, he accused the current NPS staff. I honestly believe that the only fraud is being done by Musk, (Russell) Viwe, and (Donald) Trump.
Kate Knibbs and Aarian Marshall contributed to this report.