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NEW: When a firefighter dies, a small team of federal health workers helps pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future. Trump laid off nearly all of them.

propublica.orgTrump Laid Off Nearly All the Federal Workers Who Investigate Firefighter DeathsThe cuts, which are part of Trump’s slashing of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.

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It's stuff like this that tells me Trump is not planning on risking his power ever again in a fair election. He no longer cares about keeping voters on his side. It's a full-on dictatorship from now on.

Will he be doing the same for airline and train mishap investigations? They are essential to pin pointing causes of deadly air and train disasters and save lives in the future. This makes not sense and will contribute to more firefighters being injured or killed that could be prevented.

Federal civil servants have long handled unrecognized yet crucial specialized tasks that improve the lives of innumerable Americans. I know, I work with them. The destruction of the federal government by Trump-Republicans is going to make that glaringly apparent to the U.S. public.

The role of the federal government is to do things that states can’t and capitalist corporations won’t. That’s why it is a fallacy to “run the government like a business.” Government is more like a non-profit, helping achieve national thriving & support - enhancing our freedoms & potential.

Of course he did. Who needs professional investigators when a demented old man has all the answers tucked away somewhere in that empty space between his ears. Don't forget "genius" Elon's part in all the firings. Such a genius. He's managed to destroy is own business too. So sad.

What could be more inefficient than learning lessons from the deaths of people trying to protect us? Efficiency is getting to Mars not wasting money protecting those on Earth. #VerbalIrony #ScathingSarcasm #UtterDisgust #Horror