The U.S. Forest Services typically hires thousands of firefighters every spring, but due to a new federal hiring freeze, Senator Adam Schiff says that could change.

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

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

Job offers have been rescinded and start dates pushed back just as firefighting staffing for the summer wildfire season was beginning, a union said.

Senator Adam Schiff on Friday addressed concerns that the recent freeze on federal spending could have a profound impact on California, preventing the hiring of thousands of firefighters typically signed in the spring.

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,

Federal firefighters say they're at risk of losing their jobs after President Donald Trump froze federal hiring in an executive order in January.