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BREAKING: The Trump administration ordered the dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service with an eye-crossing, sleep-inducing press release written in the densest bureaucratese you've ever had the misfortune to read. In brief:

The U.S. Forest Service’s 121-year history isn’t ending with a budget cut or reorganization—it’s being dismantled.

Headquarters is moving from Washington, D.C. to Salt Lake City, a hub of anti–public lands advocacy. All ten regional offices are being closed, along with the career experts who provided independent oversight.

More than 50 research facilities across 31 states will be eliminated, wiping out decades of long-term science that cannot be replaced. In their place: 15 political “state directors,” embedded with the same state officials and industry groups that have long pushed for more logging and fewer protections.

That puts 193 million acres—an area larger than Texas and the nation’s largest public land system—under political control with little warning.

Created by Theodore Roosevelt and built by Gifford Pinchot to ensure professional, science-based stewardship, the agency is now being reshaped under Chief Tom Schultz, a former logging executive.

Long-term studies, datasets, and partnerships will collapse. Scientists won’t relocate en masse, and their expertise will be lost.

Once the science is gone, so is the safeguard against damage. We can't save the planet until we save ourselves from this destructive administration. We'd best get busy.

Say goodbye to the Truffula Tree

Say goodbye to the Swomee Swan

Say goodbye to the Northern Spotted Owl and many more species that Americans have fought for years to rescue from the brink of extinction.

This isn't political its the ultrawealty timber companies taking from the American public. Its the top 2% screwing you over. Is this what you voted for?

it looks like no one learned their lesson last year. we will see how much, if any, of this survives congress. I personally wouldn't bank on it.

The White House said it would ask Congress for about $1.5 trillion for defense in 2027, its highest level in modern history.

We were informed today that DHS implementing Maxiflex, which we had at USCIS until it was revoked last April. Can have 2 days off during pay period and flex our time the other days, which is what we had before. This was a nice surprise and was in the works under Noem before she left.

Anyone see the actual guidance on this?

There’s an idea about how political power is supposed to work in the U.S. To guard against anything resembling monarchy, the founders vested Congress, not the president, with the power of the purse. The premise was simple: kings tax and spend at will. American presidents aren’t supposed to. Of course, it’s well known that this boundary is being stress-tested by President Donald Trump. What isn’t is that it’s related to his solution to the crisis at airports, with TSA agents going unpaid due to the partial government shutdown related to Trump’s controversial immigration regime.

Trump signed an executive order last week to pay TSA agents. The order directs the Secretary of Homeland Security “to use funds that have a reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations to provide TSA employees with the compensation and benefits that would have accrued to them if not for the Democrat-led DHS shutdown.”

Some policy and legal experts say Trump’s order relies on funding from legally questionable sources. The White House hasn’t exactly specified where within the tax and spending bill the money is coming from. But Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, said in an interview with CNBC, there’s just one section deep in the more than 300 pages of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act where the money can be coming from.

Read more: https://fortune.com/2026/04/03/donald-trump-tsa-funding-slush-fund-budget-experts-warn/