Further cuts at NIOSH including firefighters cancer registry

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Among the newly terminated are those employees who worked for the National Firefighter Registry for Cancer. After CBS reported on those firings on Friday night, HHS pushed back, claiming that no CDC employee had been laid off and that the firefighter health and safety programs would remain “top priority” for the agency.

A source who worked for the firefighter registry disputed each of HHS’s claims, confirming that they’d been fired on Friday evening and noting that the National Firefighter Registry for Cancer had already been closed to new applicants. The agency’s website affirmed that the program was taken offline.

https://www.progressreport.news/p/rfk-jr-massacre-paves-way-to-give

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Legit question: Outside of writing out state officials, what can we collectively do?

Nothing about this is acceptable.

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We die of cancer. Never make the mistake of thinking those in power actually care about our health… just look at the 9/11 responders and how they’ve been treated. For now it’s politically inconvenient to be openly dismissive of firefighters, but this administration has made their disdain clear for anyone who wants to live beyond retirement.

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Don’t both sides it. There’s plenty of people in power, and those who could have been in power, who do care about you.

There’s one party who has gotten a lot of 9/11 benefits through, and there is another party who opposes them.

Both sidesing drives me insane.

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Never said both sides, I said “those in power.” Presently, that is solidly one party out of the two.