NEW YORK (PIX11) – The 9/11 health program is taking a heavy hit from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
Twenty percent of the program's staff were just fired or took buyouts. Already strained workers will now be slower in processing the sick, with far greater wait times and delays.
More than 137,000 people are enrolled in the program. They include first responders and everyday New Yorkers exposed to the toxic dust following the collapse of the World Trade Center towers in Lower Manhattan in 2001.
Activists and politicians are demanding the cuts be reversed.
Critics are calling on Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the newly confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services, to reverse the cuts and restore critical jobs so health care can come swiftly and save lives.