DOGE Restores 9/11 Survivor Program Cuts, Hires Back Workers
- Program benefits responders, survivors to terrorist attacks
- Eliminated jobs were restored late Friday after outcry
Firefighters walk through the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Photographer: Rick Maiman/Bloomberg News
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The Trump administration walked back cuts to a health program for 9/11 first responders and survivors, restoring research grants and the jobs of laid-off workers.
The World Trade Center Health Program, which conducts research and provides monitoring and treatment for health conditions found in the survivors and responders of the 2001 terrorist attacks, saw two cancer research grants spiked and over a dozen staffers laid off in recent days, according to Ben Chevat, the executive director of 9/11 Health Watch, an independent monitor of the program.