West Virginia Voted for Trump 70-28, Now Coal Miners are Losing Black Lung Screenings

West Virginia voted for Trump 69.97% to Harris getting 28.10%, and now their coal miners are losing black lung screenings after Trump slashed the budget for the worker safety agency NIOSH.

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West Virginia voted for Trump 69.97% to Harris getting 28.10%, and now their coal miners are losing black lung screenings after Trump slashed the budget for the worker safety agency NIOSH.

This might be called a lesson regarding what exactly Republicans mean when they refer to cutting “waste, fraud and abuse.”

Republicans see the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as waste, fraud and abuse. So President Trump mandated the slashing of their budget, which led to the elimination of black lung screenings for coal miners and the termination of many NIOSH staff members, according to an article by CBS.

But it’s also bigger than coal miners.

"I'm really worried and fearful about what the impacts are going to be on the rest of us," Catherine Blackwood, who is described as a PhD scientist at the NIOSH facility in Morgantown, West Virginia, told CBS.

"Every single person faces different hazards at their work ev…