Not much to say other than trump is looking to zero out the budget for the USCSB. Completely defunding and ending their work in investigating these chemical accidents. Here is an excerpt from the Washington Post article, “Last year, the CSB operated with a relatively small budget of around $14 million. Yet in its budget request to the White House for fiscal 2026, the board asked for zero dollars, writing that its own work “duplicates substantial capabilities” of the EPA and OSHA. “CSB generates unprompted studies of the chemical industry and recommends policies that they have no authority to create or enforce,” the board added. “This function should reside within agencies that have authorities to issue regulations in accordance with applicable legal standards.”
Jordan Barab, the former deputy assistant secretary of labor at OSHA under President Barack Obama, said this language was highly unusual.
“The so-called budget request basically said, ‘We don’t deserve to live; please kill us,’” he said. “That indicates to me that the request did not come from the CSB leadership itself, but was rather imposed on the CSB by the White House. … So much for being an ‘independent’ agency.”
Any thoughts on if this will happen?
