Leader Schumer, Gillibrand Statement On Reports Of CDC Employees, Including World Trade Center Health Program Employees, Being Laid Off By The Trump Administration

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) today released the following statement after reports of potential staff reductions for the World Trade Center Health Program.

“We have serious questions and grave concerns regarding potential staff reductions for the essential World Trade Center Health Program. We worked hard for years to build bipartisan support and to secure resources for the program—including nearly $1.7 billion in the past few years. The cutting of vital federal workers would undermine our sacred promise to take care of all those who answered the call on 9/11 and are now suffering health problems as a result. The Trump administration must come clean with whatever dirty deal they have planned for a health fund that should be about taking care of our 9/11 heroes—nothing more, nothing less.”

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