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The Trump administration’s cuts to the federal workforce could affect the World Trade Center Health Program, potentially putting the health of 9/11 first responders at risk, critics said.

Sixteen probationary staff members at the World Trade Center Health Program have been fired as part of the layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Several other full-time staff members have agreed to take a buyout, according to Citizens for the Extension of the James Zadroga Act

It amounts to a 20% reduction in the staff that supervises and administers the World Trade Center Health Program. There are also cuts to research grants that fund efforts at the FDNY to prove new conditions are related to service at the World Trade Center site on and after 9/11.

-- ABC News' Aaron Katersky

President Trump has weighed in with his opposition regarding the Senate budget resolution.

In a new social media post, the president endorses the House resolution because he believes it implements his America First agenda.

"We need both Chambers to pass the House Budget to 'kickstart' the Reconciliation process, and move all of our priorities to the concept of, 'ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL,'" Trump wrote.

-- ABC News' Kelsey Walsh

The future looked bright for Luis Eduardo Perez Parra, Leonel Rivas Gonzalez and Abrahan Josue Barrios last week.

After being held in immigration custody for over a year and facing the possibility of transfer to Guantanamo Bay, the three men asked a federal court to intervene, warning they might have "disappeared into the legal black hole" of Guantanamo.

Last Sunday, a federal judge in New Mexico handed down a surprise ruling blocking President Donald Trump's administration from sending the men to Guantanamo -- the first successful legal challenge to the policy since it was enacted last month.

But their victory was short-lived.

The very next day, the men were placed on the first deportation flight back to Venezuela in over a year, according to their lawyer Jessica Vosburgh.

"It's hard to imagine that it didn't have something to do with them filing a habeas piece and then stepping forward to challenge these threatened Guantanamo transfers," Vosburgh told ABC News.

"The court's order only applied to transfers to Guantanamo, this is just a slap in the face to get deported the next day."

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous and Armando Garcia

Early this month, as part of President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration, the first flight carrying "high threat" migrants landed at Guantanamo Bay, home of the notorious U.S. prison camp that administration officials said would house the most violent "worst of the worst" migrants apprehended on American soil.

ABC News, however, has spoken with the families of two migrants who say they're being held there despite having no criminal record.

"He told us he was being targeted because of his tattoos ... he was accused of being part of [the Venezuelan gang] Tren de Aragua, but that is not true," said Barbara Simancas, the sister of Jose Rodriguez Simancas who is reportedly one of the migrants in Guantanamo. "His tattoos have nothing to do with that ... they are of his children's names."

ABC News also spoke with Jhoan Lee Bastidas, the father of Jhoan Lee Bastidas Paz, who is being held at Guantanamo Bay. He was charged with "improper entry" into the U.S. in November 2023 and pleaded guilty. Court records also indicate he has "no criminal history" besides that charge.

Lee Bastidas told ABC News he found out about his son's detention when his other son saw a photo on social media of Bastidas Paz on a military flight to Guantanamo.

"We're thinking the worst things because on social media, they say Guantanamo is the worst ... that it's where they house the terrorists," Lee Bastidas said. "I am tormented."

-ABC News' Laura Romero and James Hill