At the direction of President Trump, Elon Musk and his team are firing workers across the federal government at a breakneck pace.

This week, some 6,000 employees are expecting termination notices at the IRS, along with more than 5,000 across the Department of Health and Human Services.

Already, more than 200 have been fired from FEMA, around 400 from the Federal

Aviation Administration, and more than 1,000 from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Our White

House correspondent, Laura Barone Lopez, spoke with one former federal worker who was among those

recently let go. The Trump administration has fired more than 20,000 federal workers and contractors.

The effort to dramatically cut the federal workforce led by Elon Musk's team has been chaotic

and sweeping, and in some instances, the administration has scrambled to reverse the

firings.

The terminations are ongoing, and they include a thousand National

Parks employees. Employees like former park ranger Lydia Jones, who worked at Badlands National

Park in South Dakota. She joins me now. Lydia, thank you so much for talking to us. You were

fired on Valentine's Day. What went through your mind when you got the news?

And I was heartbroken when I initially got the news. It was definitely unexpected. It was

something that I was planning on potentially making a lifelong career. So it was quite the surprise.

And you were one of three EMTs at your park at Badlands National Park, which stretches over 244,000 acres.

You welcome more than one million visitors a year.

What did your job require?

And why did you become an EMT?

My official main job was as an interpretive park ranger.

A lot of my duties were related to visitor services, working in the visitor center, providing

visitors with information and directions, doing educational programs, guided hikes, things

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