Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has been pushing to purge national parks of more federal workers, but he has a grand plan to make these treasured public spaces great again: hire a bunch of cops.

On Monday, Burgum announced that the National Park Service is hiring 500 law enforcement officers.

“🚨@NatlParkService is hiring 500 elite law enforcement officers to protect America’s parks & monuments!” he wrote via X. “From remote wilderness to city streets, our officers & rangers are on the frontlines carrying out @POTUS’ directive to keep America SAFE!”

His big news comes nearly one month after the Interior Department announced plans to fire over 2,000 federal workers, including hundreds of parks employees.

That attempt is still tied up in court after Judge Susan Illston in the Northern Dis

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