Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which advocates on behalf of federal workers, said he heard from “dozens” of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) staffers who received such notices.
“At a time when the President is publicly touting how investors have recently made millions, even billions, of dollars off recent swings in the stock market, it is cruel and inhumane for the Commerce Department to short-change fired NOAA employees on their health insurance,” Whitehouse said in an email.