The Trump Administration’s funding shell recreation over the well being program that treats 9/11 first responders with Floor Zero-related sicknesses continued this weekend with a recent spherical of layoffs — and New York’s Senate delegation is looking on their Republican colleagues to step up and save this system.
Friday’s mass layoffs on the Nationwide Institute for Occupational Security and Well being turned the most recent blow to the World Commerce Heart Well being Program, which is caught in a back-and-forth funding drama as Trump and Heath and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. take a buzzsaw to key well being and analysis applications.
“We all know now that chaos has swirled for weeks regarding the World Trade Center program. We hear people are being fired then we hear they’re being restored,” Sen. Chuck Schumer mentioned at a press occasion Sunday alongside Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
“The truth of it is, the administration, Donald Trump and RFK revealed their true intentions Friday night when they fired another 16 [staffers]. Not only did they not restore those who our Republican colleagues … promised were going to restore, but then they fired new people.”
Kennedy has moved to wipe out NIOSH, a part of the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, with an April 1 wave of layoffs, and on Friday, almost all the remaining workers was let go. That included nurses, scientists, and different administrative workers on the World Commerce Heart Well being Program, CBS reported.
Schumer and Gillibrand are calling on GOP legislators to make use of their votes on Trump’s price range to strain the administration into restoring this system.
(L-R) Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA), Senate Minority Chief Charles Schumer (D-NY), Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) and Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) stroll down the Senate Steps with dozens of fellow Democratic lawmakers to mark the primary 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second time period within the White Home exterior the U.S. Capitol on April 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Picture by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Pictures)
As of final week, Howard has been informed by HHS officers that he’s absolutely reinstated to his put up and given authority to certify sicknesses and approve therapy plans.
However Schumer mentioned Sunday his standing stays unclear.
“They’ve told him he’s gone by June 2, but they don’t know what his status is now, what he can do and cannot do,” Schumer mentioned.
