A Department of Interior effort to cut more than 2,000 jobs across its workforce includes positions in the Connecticut River Valley and Massachusetts, according to a document shared with a federal judge last week.

Rachel Borra, the department’s chief human capital officer, told a judge in northern California last week it plans to cut jobs to comply with Trump administration orders.

But it stopped after Judge Susan Illston issued a temporary restraining order Oct. 17 that described layoffs during the shutdown as “unprecedented in our country’s history.”

The planned cuts include positions at the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service. The department gave the judge a 30-page table detailing positions it intended to abolish.

Locally, the

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