{"id":3198,"date":"2025-05-22T15:22:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/kennedy-said-a-team-is-in-milwaukee-to-help-with-lead-contamination-the-city-says-thats-not-true\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T15:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:22:41","slug":"kennedy-said-a-team-is-in-milwaukee-to-help-with-lead-contamination-the-city-says-thats-not-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/kennedy-said-a-team-is-in-milwaukee-to-help-with-lead-contamination-the-city-says-thats-not-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy said a \u2018team\u2019 is in Milwaukee to help with lead contamination. The city says that\u2019s not true"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/action-bar\/instances\/cmawxdib4000r26qa2z9s65cz@published\" data-label-id-prefix=\"action-bar-start-of-article\" class=\"action-bar\" data-dynamic-breakpoint-placement=\"{&quot;extraLarge&quot;:{&quot;placement&quot;:&quot;.layout-article-elevate__left&quot;}}\" data-expand-conditions=\"{&quot;follow&quot;:{&quot;extraLarge&quot;:{&quot;alwaysExpand&quot;:true}},&quot;shareOptions&quot;:{&quot;large&quot;:{&quot;maxNumOfActions&quot;:1},&quot;medium&quot;:{&quot;maxNumOfActions&quot;:1},&quot;extraLarge&quot;:{&quot;withAction&quot;:&quot;follow&quot;,&quot;maxNumOfActions&quot;:2}}}\">\n<div class=\"action-bar__overlay\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"action-bar__action-sheet\">\n<div class=\"action-bar__action-sheet--header\">\n<div class=\"action-bar__action-sheet--header-title\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"action-bar__action-sheet--header-close\">                            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Kennedy Jr. told a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday that the federal government has \u201ca team in Milwaukee\u201d helping the city address a lead crisis in its schools. The city says that that\u2019s not true and that it\u2019s still not receiving requested aid from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s childhood lead poisoning experts to deal with the ongoing contamination.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmawxef4x00033b6mxe2djs51@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            During a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing to review the president\u2019s HHS budget request for 2026, Kennedy fielded questions about programs and staff already slashed from federal health agencies.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmawy7o1800013b6m5jbe2836@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The CDC\u2019s experts have not been rehired.    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/related-content\/instances\/cmawxgigz001y3b6m8lxa79rc@published\" data-component-name=\"related-content\" class=\"related-content-elevate related-content--article\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n<header class=\"related-content__title related-content__title-text\" data-editable=\"content.title\">Related article<\/header>\n<section class=\"related-content__body\">\n<div class=\"related-content__image image__related-content\">\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cmag7bfgc000i26qj8mjz3wtj@published\" class=\"image-elevate image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"AlbanV_20250506_CNN_MKELead_46.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{&quot;image--eq-extra-small&quot;: 115, &quot;image--eq-small&quot;: 300, &quot;image--eq-large&quot;: 660}\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\" data-original-height=\"2000\" data-original-width=\"3000\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/albanv-20250506-cnn-mkelead-46.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{&quot;image--eq-extra-small&quot;: 115, &quot;image--eq-small&quot;: 300, &quot;image--show-credits&quot;: 525}\">           <\/div>\n<div class=\"image__metadata-container media__metadata-container\">\n<div class=\"image__metadata media__metadata\">\n<div class=\"image__caption attribution\">    <span data-editable=\"metaCaption\" class=\"inline-placeholder\">Chipped paint on a doorway at the Golda Meir School, the school where the first known student to be exposed to a lead hazard was discovered, is seen on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Milwaukee, Wis.<\/span>  <\/div><figcaption class=\"image__credit\">Vincent Alban for CNN<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"related-content__headline\">        <span class=\"related-content__headline-text\" data-editable=\"content.headline\">In a city burdened by health hazards of lead, they\u2019re trying to repair school buildings and public trust<\/span>      <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmawxef4x00063b6mflbxjk0h@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            In response to questions Tuesday from Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, about the demise of the CDC\u2019s childhood lead poisoning prevention program, Kennedy said, \u201cWe are continuing to fund the program, and in Milwaukee, we have a team in Milwaukee, and we\u2019re giving laboratory support to that, to the analytics in Milwaukee, and we\u2019re working with the health department in Milwaukee.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmawxef4x00073b6m1nksgxgb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Caroline Reinwald, a spokesperson for the City of Milwaukee Health Department, said Kennedy\u2019s statement \u201cis inaccurate.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmawxef4x00093b6minr6ot02@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Reinwald said the department did recently get help from a lab technician from the CDC\u2019s Laboratory Leadership Service, who was there from May 5 to May 16 to help calibrate a new instrument in the city\u2019s laboratory.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmawxef4x000a3b6mllooieip@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cThis support was requested independently of the MPS crisis and was part of a separate, pre-existing need to expand our lab\u2019s long-term capacity for lead testing,\u201d Reinwald said. Beyond the contamination in schools, the city has ongoing programs to test for and remediate lead in its aging homes.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmawxef4x000c3b6m91zt3pv6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cWe have enough of a team right now,\u201d Totoraitis said. \u201cI think the long-term investigation into the potential chronic exposures of students at the districts is a part that we were really looking to the CDC to help us with, and unfortunately, HHS had laid off that entire team for childhood blood exposure.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmawxef4x000d3b6ma2uv1mhc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cThese are the best and brightest minds in these areas around lead poisoning, and now they\u2019re gone.\u201d    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/related-content\/instances\/cmawxhpt000203b6mwuaay27a@published\" data-component-name=\"related-content\" class=\"related-content-elevate related-content--article\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n<header class=\"related-content__title related-content__title-text\" data-editable=\"content.title\">Related article<\/header>\n<section class=\"related-content__body\">\n<div class=\"related-content__image image__related-content\">\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cma18fpka005x26qk992sdblf@published\" class=\"image-elevate image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"USATSI_25536702.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{&quot;image--eq-extra-small&quot;: 115, &quot;image--eq-small&quot;: 300, &quot;image--eq-large&quot;: 660}\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6664\" data-original-height=\"1666\" data-original-width=\"2500\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/usatsi-25536702.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{&quot;image--eq-extra-small&quot;: 115, &quot;image--eq-small&quot;: 300, &quot;image--show-credits&quot;: 525}\">           <\/div>\n<div class=\"image__metadata-container media__metadata-container\">\n<div class=\"image__metadata media__metadata\">\n<div class=\"image__caption attribution\">    <span data-editable=\"metaCaption\" class=\"inline-placeholder\">A parent brings their child into Trowbridge Street School of Great Lakes Studies in Milwaukee on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. The Milwaukee Health Department has ordered the school to temporarily close starting Monday after finding \u201cunsafe lead dust levels\u201d within the building.<\/span>  <\/div><figcaption class=\"image__credit\">Mike De Sisti\/Milwaukee Journal\/USA Today Network\/Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"related-content__headline\">        <span class=\"related-content__headline-text\" data-editable=\"content.headline\">Milwaukee announces additional school closures, new plan to address lead paint hazards as contamination crisis deepens<\/span>      <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmawxef4x000e3b6mftxbmiaj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Andrew Nixon, director of communications for HHS, says the CDC is helping the Milwaukee health agency\u2019s lab.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmax0mhv500012e6ajqs6u672@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            At the health department\u2019s request, he said in a statement Tuesday, \u201cCDC is assisting with validating new lab instrumentation used for environmental lead testing. Staff from [the Milwaukee lab] are focused on the lead response and other routine testing while CDC will assist with testing validation, laboratory quality management, and regulatory requirement documentation to onboard the new laboratory instrument.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmax0dfl800002e6asnh1nqj4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The city says that the CDC lab technician has left and is not expected to return. As of now, it doesn\u2019t anticipate any further help from the CDC.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmax0myef00042e6amitq5z1y@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cMHD is proud of the team currently serving Milwaukee families, managing its regular caseload while also responding to the lead crisis in MPS schools. While we would have welcomed federal support, we continue to move forward without it,\u201d Reinwald said in a statement.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmawxef4x000f3b6mlzc494xm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            At the end of Tuesday\u2019s hearing, Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat, made a statement to \u201ccorrect the record.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmawxef4x000g3b6mrw8ruibk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cThere are no staff on the ground deployed to Milwaukee to address the lead exposure of children in schools, and there are no staff left in that office at CDC, because they have all been fired,\u201d Baldwin<strong> <\/strong>told Kennedy. \u201cI look forward to working with you to reestablish that. It sounds like you have a commitment to that, but we need staff in order to make it function.\u201d    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pollution Environmental disease Federal agencies See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! 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