The U.S. Forest Service is firing around 3,400 recent hires while the National Park Service is terminating about 1,000 under President Donald Trump's push to cut federal spending, people familiar with the plans said on Friday.

The U.S. Forest Service is laying off 3,400 recent hires, and the National Park Service is terminating 1,000 employees under President Donald Trumps federal spending cuts, according to sources. These cuts impact

The US Forest Service is discharging about 3,400 employees, the agency’s union president told Bloomberg Law.

The U.S. Forest Service will fire roughly 3,400 federal employees across every level of the agency beginning Thursday, according to two people familiar with the plans. The move targets employees who are still within their probationary period, which means it’s easier for them to be let go.

A mass firing of probationary federal government employees has been ordered by the Trump administration, potentially affecting hundreds of thousands of workers including 3,400 with the U.S. Forest Service — nearly 10% of its workforce — who are being terminated,

The two decisions underscore the confusing — and at times contradictory — nature of the new administration’s efforts to shrink the federal workforce.