Trump administration guts mine safety and reproductive health divisions in sweeping HHS cuts

[highplainsdem]

Source: Independent

A slew of federal agencies - including mine safety - were gutted Tuesday as new leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services ordered the layoffs of thousands of federal workers.

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Cuts included the Division of Reproductive Health, which addresses complications of pregnancy, infant, deaths, chronic disease prevention among women of reproductive age, reducing teenage pregnancy and more.

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The United Mine Works of America said that the government had announced the potential closure of as many as 34 Mine Safety and Health Administration regional offices “with no provisions as to how the agency will be able to continue its mission of keeping miners safe on the job.”

“There is a perfect storm brewing in America’s coalfields that will have the effect of destroying thousands of coal miners’ jobs and significantly increase the risks those miners who are left will face to their health and safety on the job,” wrote union president Cecil E. Roberts.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/trump-hhs-cuts-doge-health-mine-safety-b2725525.html

[ananda]

1. And the plan to destroy everything good in this country proceeds apace.

Grrr

[Irish_Dem]

3. Yes everything that made America great is being destroyed.

Irony is dead.

What Trump means is that America has to make him great and very rich.

[ananda]

5. Well, white insanity literally "trumps" everything else.

So many people feel compelled to go along with anything
associated with the white guy, no matter what the outcome.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Like the Germans living next to the crematorium gas chambers.

The smoke was coming out spewing bits of human flesh and bones.
There is no way the residents of the town didn't know what was going on.

They were fine with it.

[moniss]

2. The tragic accident is in the making

with a move like this.

[Grins]

4. Actually waited and hoped for this!

Mine collapse during the Bush II years. Only the feds could provide the people and equipment to get them out. (They did.)

The irony was Republicans were tying to kill that agency off. Leaving miners on their own. A fact not lost on miners.

Because of those “burdensome rules and regulations” miners were saved.

And then the miners voted Republican.

Sow; reap mofo’s! Cuz’ the next mine collapse is going to be an eye-opener!