The US Fish and Wildlife Service has been chronically understaffed and underfunded. This is a disaster for our wildlife after the MAGA Morons gutted the National Parks staff.

 More than 400 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service employees were fired in a Valentine’s Day video conference call that left many of them in tears or otherwise heartbroken.

But higher-ups at the agency tried to break the news to them as gently as possible — and encouraged them not to give up on themselves or government service — during the call.

The virtual meeting, between Fish & Wildlife human resources officials and probationary employees across the country, lasted nearly 20 minutes and was recorded by a number of people on the line, including one worker who can be heard sobbing in the background.

“There’s going to be some very difficult news shared today,” an agency administrator said at the outset of the call, “and there’s little we can say to blunt the pain of these actions.”