Cuts to World Trade Center Health Program are reversed after bipartisan push

Employees and research contracts cut last week from the federal program that monitors and treats 9/11 first responders have been restored, officials confirmed Friday.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesman Benjamin Haynes told Newsday in an email that 11 employees of the World Trade Center Health Program will return to work “to ensure that those people affected by the September 11th attacks in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, continue to receive critical, high-quality and compassionate medical monitoring and treatment of WTC-related health conditions.”

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