Posted with permission from Confined Space, a newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues.
Earlier this week, President Trump submitted his Fiscal Year 2019 budget proposal. This is his second budget proposal, and like the first, although it left OSHA’s budget fairly flat, it once again proposes to slash or eliminate important safety and health programs and agencies. And this is Trump’s second OSHA budget that has been proposed with no Assistant Secretary yet in residence. Scott Mugno’s nomination continues to languish in the Senate.