Washington, March 16 -- Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. issued the following press release:
Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), the top Democrat on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, today blasted the Trump Administration after reports the Department of Health and Human Services would reassign staff at the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP) to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and demanded any affected staff return to the WTCHP.
"These staff should never have been moved in the first place and should be restored to the World Trade Center Health Program. This is a monstrous betrayal, but Trump's abandonment of 9/11 survivors and first responders is nothing new," Pallone said. "I helped to create the World Trade ...