The administration's lack of transparency about tariff exemptions has experts concerned that some firms might be winning narrow carve-outs behind closed doors. "It could be corruption, but it could just as easily be incompetence," one lobbyist said.
The cuts, which are part of Trump's slashing of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters' cancer cases.