Trump to Kill National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
The following is a crosspost from Confined Spaces, a newsletter published by the former deputy assistant Secretary for OSHA, Jordan Barab.
Trump’s war on workers is reaching full bloom. And not just a war on workers’ rights to organize or to engage in collective bargaining; Trump has now going after workers’ lives.
Yesterday, word began circulating that Trump and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. had begun the process of laying off at least two-thirds of the staff at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Around 873 staff are expected to be cut from NIOSH, out of 10,000 health staff expected to be eliminated from HHS. That means that this small important agency will sustain almost ten percent of the overall HHS cuts.
NIOSH has been part of the Centers for Disease Control since Ronald Reagan’s presidency, and RFK Jr recently moved it to his newly created Administration for a Healthy America which is allegedly designed to “implement the Make America Healthy Again goal of ending the chronic disease epidemic.”
But in case you haven’t noticed, the work of DOGE and the Cabinet Secretaries who work for Elon have nothing to do with health– or government efficiency. NIOSH, for example, has a tiny budget of $363 million, amounting to $2.20 per American worker. The agency has an enormous mandate and a long list of accomplishments over the past fifty years, making it one of the most efficient agencies in the federal government.
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