Dozens of Pittsburgh-area Federal Workers at Bruceton Research Center to Keep Jobs

Dozens of the 200 federal employees whose jobs were set to be cut at the Bruceton Research Center south of Pittsburgh will keep their jobs,U.S. Rep. Chris Deluzio said Wednesday.

The employees are respirator certification workers at the center. In layman’s terms, they test the efficacy of things like the N-95 mask that became ubiquitous during the coronavirus pandemic.

Deluzio, D-Fox Chapel, was among the elected officials who lobbied against the cuts, which were part of an overhaul of the American bureaucracy led in part by Elon Musk, the wealthiest person in the world.