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Trump cuts threaten safety training for America's most dangerous jobs

... By the time Robbie Roberge spotted the fire consuming his boat's galley last August, he knew he had just minutes to evacuate his beloved Three Girls fishing vessel, named for his daughters.

As the flames spread up the boat's walls, he helped his crew into safety suits, deployed a life raft and made a mayday call to alert nearby mariners and the U.S. Coast Guard that he was abandoning ship more than 100 miles offshore.

Roberge, a commercial fisherman from South Portland, Maine, learned how to handle such an emergency just three months earlier at a workshop held by Fishing Partnership Support Services, a nonprofit that has trained thousands of East Coast fishermen in safety practices.

On May 20, Roberge cut a fishing trip short to bring the six-man crew from his remaining boat, the Maria JoAnn, to another FPSS training in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

"I have years of experience, but not dealing with emergencies," said Roberge, whose handling of the fire led to a successful rescue with no injuries. "I make it a point to be here."

Such safety trainings -- aimed at fishermen, loggers, farmers and other workers in America's most dangerous jobs - could be scaled back or wound down entirely as soon as July, according to Reuters interviews with a dozen health and safety experts and organizations, as a result of President Donald Trump's drive to slash the size and cost of the federal government.

Those cuts have fallen heavily on the federal government's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services that is a key funder of workplace safety training and research.

WINDING DOWN

The Trump administration on April 1 terminated about 875 of the roughly 1,000 employees at NIOSH, including most of the staff who provide technical advice and support to a dozen Centers for Agricultural Safety and Health focused on fishing, farming and logging workers. ...

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@#4 ... The building of mistrust is a feature, not a bug. ...

Yup.

That's what the GOP seems to have been doing for years ...

Cutting the budgets of Federal agencies, then complaining that those Federal agencies do not look to be able to do their job.

It's an old, tried and true for a couple decades at least, tactic of the GOP, that the Trump admin seems to be exploiting to the Nth degree.

@#16 ... We have plenty of ink to print more money. ...

Apparently, Pres Trump agrees with your current alias, because his bill will increase the deficit by trillions of dollars, mostly by tax cuts for the wealthy like himself.

Meanwhile the spending cuts your current alias seems to triumph in #11 reduce spending by less [much less?] than a trillion dollars.

So, what does your current alias' math tell it about the size of the deficit going forward should Congress pass Pres Trump's bill?

@#20 ... Why do Democrats like Biden thrive on bringing in 3rd world types that do make our public swimming pools disease ridden cesspools and who murder and threaten fellow citizens. ...

Really?

If I may ask, why do US companies hire immigrants instead of Americans citizens?

Immigrants are not stealing jobs from Americans, American companies are giving the jobs to immmigrants instead of American citizens.

And as a follow-up, how might those American companies be viewing Pres Trump's reduction of their workforce?

Yer up.