Lawmakers call for withdrawal of Trump proposal that could impact 9/11 responders' health care

[turbinetree]

Source: The Hill

A bipartisan group of New York lawmakers called on White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney to scrap a proposal in President Trump's proposed budget plan they say could threaten the health treatment of 9/11 first responders.

New York Reps. Peter King (R), Jerry Nadler (D) and Carolyn Maloney (D) said they were "shocked and disturbed" by the proposal, which would see a realignment involving the World Trade Center Health Program.

That program is currently housed in the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), which is part of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Trump's 2019 budget proposal for NIOSH would move that agency into the National Institute for Health (NIH).

That move could result in the shifting of employees from NIOSH to the NIH, impacting the 83,000 9/11 first responders who receive treatment and care from the WTC Health program.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/374488-lawmakers-call-for-withdrawall-of-proposal-in-trump-budget-plan-that-could

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What a complete and total asshole.....................


November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[JDC]

1. He is truly trying to destroy everything that is decent here

He is a traitor to human kind.

[lunasun]

2. Total diss to his home state wow he is a sociopath

[riversedge]

3. They said the budget proposal was made with no input from the 9/11 health-care community.

.....They said the budget proposal was made with no input from the 9/11 health-care community.

"If you had spoken to us, or anyone in the 9/11 healthcare community, you would have understood that the World Trade Center Health Program is fully integrated with NIOSH and there are many shared NIOSH staff whose expertise would be lost if the WTCHP is pulled from NIOSH," the lawmakers said.

[pangaia]

4. Peter King?????????

Peter, fucking King?

well my oh my.. HELL has truly frozen over.

[Honeycombe8]

5. That's about as low as you can get. The first responders to 9/11. Who would've thought

Who would've thought it would come to this. That he'd sink this low.

Money money money. That's all they care about. They are desperate to wring out every dollar from the government, to help defray the cost of their huge tax cut bill. Which I believe will send us into a recession in a few years, just like the last time.