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Democrats, if they're looking for kind of stories to focus in on things, they can say that are getting broken by the move fast and break things philosophy of the Trump administration. They have to focus in on parks and museums and that sort of thing, because, again, those are the only place where you might actually drive up and be told no by somebody who's a federal employee. You just don't have that many opportunities in your normal life. That is why there's been outsized focus over the course of the last 48 hours on the supposed shutdown of the national parks. So, according to the Associated Press, the Trump administration has fired about a thousand newly hired National Park Service employees who maintain and clean parks, educate visitors, and perform other functions as part of its broad based effort to downsize government. The firings, which weren't publicly announced but were confirmed by Democratic senators and House members, come amid what has been a chaotic rollout of an aggressive program to eliminate thousands of federal jobs.
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Adding to the confusion, the Park Service now says it is reinstating about 5,000 seasonal jobs. They were initially rescinded last month as part of a spending freeze ordered by President Trump. So just to be clear, they are getting rid of 1,000 new employees who were just hired like a moment ago, but they are reinstating 5,000 seasonal employees. So you really should not have a staffing shortage at the national parks just on the basis of those numbers. Seasonal workers are routinely added during warm weather months to serve more than 325 million visitors who descend on the nation's 428 parks, historic sites and other attractions every year. Parks advocates say that permanent staff cuts will leave hundreds of national parks understaffed and facing tough decisions about operating hours, public safety, and resource protection. Okay, now the sort of idea that the national parks are somehow going to be unworkable if they have a couple fewer employees.
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Like a thousand employees you're talking about on average, by the way, they just said 428. 428 national parks and areas under the governance of this particular agency. A thousand employees cut. That's two, like two employees per national park if you're just gonna average it out. So supposedly this is going to mean that trash will pile up and restrooms won't be cleaned and maintenance problems will grow and guided tours will be cut back or canceled. And they say public safety will be at risk. No, I'm sorry, no. So, first of all, they do this every time there's a government shutdown. So there have been several government shutdowns over the course of the last decade. And every single time they. There is some dumb ass story about how you can't visit the World War II memorial because it's been shut down. Barack Obama famously would do this every time there was a government shutdown.
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He would put out a bunch of pylons around the World War II memorial and say, you can't walk here because of the federal government shutdown, and be like, well, why can't I walk there? It's literally just statuary. Why can't I just walk through this area where there are statues? Like, if I go visit the Vietnam War Memorial, which is a giant wall, why exactly do I need federal employees there? Why can't I just walk over there? What exactly is the problem? And by the way, if you are a regular visitor to national parks, and I've gone to several national parks with my kids and with my wife, when you go to a national park, the interface that you have with the employees at the national park, unless you're taking a guided tour, is typically you paying for parking at the opening. Producer Zach goes to the national parks, he says once every couple of months.
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And so I'm now going to ask Producer Zach to tell me in my ear, how often do you interface with federal employees at the national parks? Or is it mostly like, you arrive and then you have to pay for parking and maybe, maybe they have like a gift shop and then you basically just go explore the park on your own? Yeah, it's pretty much just the people who take my parking money. It's the people who take the parking money. It's the people who take the parking money. So first of all, you can cut all those people by just having an automatic parking meter, like every other parking lot in America, which has had an automatic parking meter since 1972. You don't actually need. I mean, like, I like those people, they're nice people, but you don't actually need those people standing there and telling you it's five bucks to enter the national park to go to the Everglades or something.
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So this idea that you're talking about, like a wildly staffed, like, deeply staffed agency at the national parks, and you must shut down the entire. You have to shut down hundreds of acres because you don't have the dude who's taking the parking ticket at the front. That's an absurdity. That is ridiculous. That's. So what is this, really? It's a mockery. It's just acting. It's just performative. It's. My God, we're gonna shut down the one place you interface with the federal government in order to show you the cuts to the federal government can impact even you in reality. Could we run the national parks? Unless then we are currently running the national parks. I am sure that we could. Is it possible that all those people will be hired back or some of them will be hired back? I. I'm sure they will. But again, this is the sort of thing that happens every time.
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Every time there's any level of funding gap in the government from a government shutdown to what Doge is doing, the left immediately claims millions will die. They're like, okay, how? Like, well, the faa, like, no, that's not gonna do it. Well, probably. Probably you won't be able to go to a national park. Well, why not? Why can't I just go to that national. Like, it's trees. The trees have been there for literally billions of years at this point. Why should I not be able to walk through the trees? I don't even use a guide. Like, why? Well, but you can't. You can't because there will be a fire. Probably. Will there be a fire? Probably. Will there be? And if so, won't they just hire back the fire? Like, aren't the firefighters the first people that are going to get hired back after these cuts?
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The reason that you're seeing the outside hysteria is because it is performative hysteria. Clearly. Performative hysteria, hysteria. We'll get to more on this in a moment. First, you know what's funny? When I started the Daily Wire, I thought the hard part would be creating great content. Well, it turns out dealing with all the behind the scenes stuff. Hiring HR policies, employee issues. That's what really eats up all your time. I know I'm not alone. When you're a business owner, every second of your time is incredibly valuable. So don't waste your energy and risk losing money. Dealing with time, sucking payroll issues, office politics, HR interactions. Focus on the stuff that matters most. Running your business with help from Bambi. Here's what makes Bambi different. They give you access to your very own dedicated HR manager at a fraction of what it costs to employ somebody full time.
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That means that when it comes to things like the firefighters, I guarantee you within two days there'll be a rehiring of many of these firefighters because President Trump doesn't want the bad headlines on that sort of stuff. But the people who are like, my God, I can't visit Yellowstone anymore. They're only shutting down Yellowstone in order to make you say that you want to talk about actual deep state and media intervention. That's what this is. I promise you they can open Yellowstone without the guy who's the ticket taker at the front. I promise you it's fine. And they're doing this with, like, everything. They're doing this with the faa. Preemptive panic over everything. So the Washington Post has a piece today, quote, a team from billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket company will help envision ways to overhaul the nation's aging air traffic control systems, beginning with a visit to the Federal Aviation Administration's command center on Monday.
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According to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, SpaceX rocket launches are regulated by the FAA. The agency has alleged the company violated safety rules in the past. Oh, you see? So now the bad guys are taking over to the FAA. You see, SpaceX is bad because it's regulated by the. Probably. This is regulatory capture. Probably SpaceX is just going to randomly blow crap up on the tarmac, you know, because they can. Does anyone truly believe that it is worse for SpaceX, one of the most technologically sophisticated companies on planet Earth, to have its employees. Taking a look at the faa, which is using computers that are like Apple computers from 1997. Ridiculous, by the way. The FAA has not laid off massive numbers of workers. It has laid off roughly 400 probationary employees. That represents a small fraction of the agency's workforce of almost 47,000. Frontline workers like air traffic controllers and radar technicians are spared.
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So they're all preemptively freaking out about cuts to the FAA that don't actually exist. This is why, again, what Trump and Musk are doing here is deeply, deeply important. Are you tired of the lies and the twist of the mainstream media talking points? Yeah. Me too. Join me in my newest series, Fact, where I dismantle and bring truth to this tiring mainstream agenda.