The effects have also achieved the National Park Service. An employee was ready to make a journey to monitor road maintenance in a national monument when the change came into force on February 20. “Unless I want to pay for it myself, I can’t go. I can’t pay for my hotel, my rental car, fuel for the car. Now I can’t do the mission, ”says the employee. “Instead of concentrating on other work, I concentrate on three different eventualities today as I deal with it. Do I call my engineering team and tell you that you should plan again? And if so, when? The project is indefinitely. “
In a memo to the National Park Service employees, it was found that “all trips that are not related to national security, public security or enforcement of immigration should be canceled if it begins on Wednesday, February 26, until the end of March 2025.” A long -term decision on the travel guideline, it is said, will come “at a later date”. Some NPS employees were able to travel in February even though they did not receive official approval. In the meantime, they have been told that no travel will be allowed in March. So far, according to a source familiar with the situation, around 75 trips have been canceled or shifted.
The National Park Service did not respond to a request for comments from WIRED.
Some government employees stated that they had received a warning before the change on February 20. “There is a general confirmation that things will break.”
This employee works in the Pacific West region, the state in California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Nevada as well as parks in Arizona, Montana, Guam and American Samoa. While the GSA allows the possibility of exceptions to the terminal, the employee claims that only four shopping cards with expenditure restrictions over 1 are available for the entire region.
Some of these parks pay for services such as the Internet and wirelessly on purchase cards. The employees wonder whether their work equipment could be cut off soon. “Before someone can repair a bathroom, a work order must be issued,” explains the current employee. “That happens electronically. Like every company, we rely on e -mails, teams and chat to do things. “
The expenditure limits reflect Musks in no budgeting of zero. After buying Twitter, he lowered the budget to zero and forced the employees to justify all costs. He also frozen the corporate credit cards from people.
“With the Twitter break of payments, we were someday in a meeting at 1 a.m. Everything in Podcast in February. (Calacanis was part of Musk’s transition team on Twitter.) “And of course we started to get calls … The people who come first are probably those who are greatest.”
The employees see it differently. “There are so many controls to ensure that the fraud does not occur,” claims the current NPS employee. “To be honest, I think the only one was, the appearance, by Musk, (Russell) and (Donald) Trump is committed.”
Kate Knibbs and Aian Marshall contributed to this reporting.
