US Edition9/11 Health Program Funding Cut in Federal Budget, Advocates Demand Restoration
- The city's firefighter unions criticized lawmakers for cutting health care funds for 9/11 first responders from the federal budget after a spending plan was rejected.
- Elon Musk's social media post led Republicans to abandon a bipartisan plan to prevent a government shutdown.
- Funding for the health program was expected to be permanent until President-elect Donald Trump opposed the bill last week.
- Advocates expressed disappointment, stating that repeated funding requests are disingenuous as many are still getting sick from 9/11 exposure.
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'Unfathomable': Firefighters slam spending bill after Trump 'scuttled' 9/11 first-responders funding
The United States avoided a federal government shutdown when President Joe Biden, on December 21, signed into law a three-month stopgap spending bill that had passed in both houses of Congress. One of the things the bill didn't include was funding for 9/11 first-responders, much to the disappointment of some New York City firefighters.NY1.com's Noorulain Khawaja reports, "The stopgap bill passed to avoid a government shutdown did not include fun…
NYC firefighter unions demand Congress fully fund 9/11 health care, and ‘never forget’ sacrifices of those who worked during recovery
New York's firefighters unions are calling out federal lawmakers, demanding that they heed their promise to “never forget” the sacrifices incurred during the 9/11 terror attacks and the subsequent health-related issues. Standing together on Sunday outside of FDNY Firehouse, Engine Company 10 and Ladder Company 10 located at 124 Liberty St. — near where many firefighters responded to the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001 — the un…
Congress omits funding for World Trade Center Health Program
NEW YORK (PIX11) -- Thousands of first responders who received financial aid from the World Trade Center Health Program were left to fend for themselves. Congress left the program out of the budget bill last Friday to avoid a government shutdown. More Local News Just two days before Congress left the program out, first responders had celebrated that the 9/11 health compensation bill was going to be funded until 2040. However, by Friday t…
NYC firefighter unions blast House decision to strip funding for 9/11 health care program
By Rebecca White and John Annese New York Daily News,(TNS)The city’s firefighter unions slammed Sunday a decision by lawmakers two days earlier to strip vital health care funds for 9/11 first responders from the federal budget after Elon Musk and Donald Trump nuked a stopgap spending plan, threatening a government shutdown.
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