The WTCHP is currently a part of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, but President Trump’s 2019 budget would move the agency to the National Institutes of Health. This move could potentially shift employees from the NIOSH to the NIH and lead to disruptions in healthcare coverage for the 83,000 9/11 first responders who rely on the WTCHP.
“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 wrote in a letter to Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Budget Management.
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