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| 0:00.0 | When Malcolm Gladwell presented NPR's ThruLine podcast with a Peabody Award, he praised it for its historical and moral clarity. |
| 0:10.0 | On ThruLine, we take you back in time to the origins of what's in the news, like presidential power, aging, and evangelicalism. |
| 0:18.0 | Time travel with us every week on the ThruLine podcast from NPR. |
| 0:24.3 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. The Trump administration and Secretary |
| 0:30.6 | of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. say they will crack down on toxic chemicals. But as NPR's |
| 0:36.9 | Willstone reports, the broad cuts to the federal |
| 0:39.8 | government have demolished an agency that devotes much of its energy to investigating these hazards. |
| 0:46.3 | Studies on workplace exposure to chemicals that may harm reproductive health, |
| 0:50.8 | investigations into a possible cancer cluster at a state university, the only national |
| 0:55.5 | program tracking blood-led levels in adults. These are among the many casualties of the Trump |
| 1:00.7 | administration's firing of about 90% of the staff at the National Institute for Occupational |
| 1:05.9 | Safety and Health, or NIOSH. Dr. Robert Harrison at UCSF says NIOSH is instrumental in funding and advancing |
| 1:13.2 | research on carcinogens and other dangerous substances. It's been near eliminated. It's almost |
| 1:18.8 | destroyed. In a statement to NPR, the Department of Health and Human Services said critical |
| 1:23.2 | initiatives under NIOSH will remain intact and will join the newly created administration for a |
| 1:28.3 | healthy America. Will Stone, NPR News. The Trump administration says there are now multiple |
| 1:34.7 | law enforcement investigations into a former cybersecurity official whom the president has personally |
| 1:41.4 | targeted. And here's Tom Dreisbach has more. |
| 1:49.9 | Christopher Krebs was the top cybersecurity official in the first Trump administration, but Trump fired him after Krebs said accurately that the 2020 election was safe and secure. |
| 1:55.8 | Last month in the Oval Office, Trump ordered the government to investigate Krebs. |
| 2:00.4 | He's the fraud. He's a disgrace, |
| 2:02.5 | so we'll find out whether or not it was a safe election. And if it wasn't, he's got a big price to pay. |
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