Cincinnati, Ohio – Today, Congressman Greg Landsman (D-OH-01) released the following statement after hundreds of National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) jobs were cut in 2025 by the Trump Administration and later reinstated:
We immediately got to work, organizing more than 100 members of Congress to get the Department of Health and Human Services’ attention to prioritize these jobs.
Questioning RFK Jr. in committee
I brought it up during my hearing in the Energy and Commerce Committee with Secretary of HHS RFK Jr. I publicly asked if we could work together on reinstating these jobs — and he said yes.
We never took our foot off the gas
My team and I then had a call with members of RFK Jr’s leadership team, and we sent them a list of every local NIOSH position that had been cut, advocating for each job.
And then we kept checking in so it was top of mind.
Seeing these jobs reinstated is a huge deal. That’s what members of Congress should do – go hard for the people you represent.
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