Trump administration guts mine safety and reproductive health divisions in sweeping HHS cuts [View all]

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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