'Biohazard': Forest Service employees warn cuts having devastating, and disgusting, impacts [View all]
Source: GovExec.com
The Trump administration’s Elon Musk-backed government efficiency team promised to eliminate waste throughout government. At the U.S. Forest Service, it is instead letting it build up.
The Department of Government Efficiency has instituted new layers of review at USFS, as it has at most federal agencies. Processes that typically took minutes are now taking a month or longer and a wide range of functions are feeling the impact. In some cases, that has led to trash piling up and pit toilets—restrooms that include only holes in the ground, as is common as Forest Service recreational centers and campgrounds—going uncleaned or unemptied.
Getting a contract approved for janitorial services, said one USFS who works on those procurements, previously took a day-and-a-half. With the added layers that DOGE has installed, it now takes six weeks.
“You’ve got this biohazard,” the employee said, adding any cleaning that is happening occurs by employees “in their 70s with power washers that they bought with their own money so they don’t have to scrape poop off the wall.”
Read more: https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/05/biohazard-forest-service-employees-warn-cuts-having-devastating-and-disgusting-impacts/405021/?oref=ge-home-top-story
Stay away from National parks. It’s a biohazard now.
Talk about a shit show- well, Doge did it this time.
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