Trump administration cuts claim 16 jobs at World Trade Center Health Program

Rescue workers search for survivors in 2001 after the World... — Rescue workers search for survivors in 2001 after the World Trade Center attacks. Credit: Newsday/Viorel Florescu

By Tom Brunetom.brune@newsday.com @TomBruneDCApril 5, 2025

WASHINGTON — Sixteen World Trade Center Health Program employees received notices that they could lose their jobs in the Health and Human Services Department’s downsizing, despite promises the program’s staff would not be reduced, a 9/11 health advocate said Friday.

Those notices, not previously reported, went out this past week as HHS stirred a furor among lawmakers and ailing 9/11 first responders by dismissing WTC Health Program Director Dr. John Howard and others in the department who provided essential services to the program.

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By Tom Brune

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Tom Brune covers the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court and the federal government from Washington, D.C.