px_eliezer_ At least two-thirds of the employees at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, an agency within HHS, were notified on April 1 that they had been laid off or will be in June. These cuts included seven of the eight members of the Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program, the team that studies firefighter line-of-duty deaths, one of the laid-off investigators told ProPublica. Most nonunionized NIOSH workers were given until the end of the day to clear out their desks. The layoffs were so abrupt, staff said, that lab animals were left without staff to care for them and had to be euthanized, and an experimental mine used to test protective gear beneath the agency’s Pittsburgh campus was at risk of flooding and polluting the surrounding environment. The fatality investigation team was examining deaths at 20 fire departments when the layoff notices arrived. Those probes are now unlikely to be completed, the investigator said. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cuts-firefighter-deaths I’m sure that some folks here think that all this is fine. But it’s not.
Bombtrad dave It’s almost like there was no planning behind this, Now that’s unkind, some really really great minds have spent sooooo much time developing these beautiful outcomes. The best I tell you.