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…

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Congress omits funding for World Trade Center Health Program

Fire unions and advocates are calling out congress for failing to secure the funding for the 9/11 victim’s healthcare program after their agreement to keep the government open.

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Fire unions livid as funding for 9/11 health fund excluded from federal budget, funds in jeopardy

The city's firefighter unions on Sunday slammed a decision by lawmakers two days earlier to strip vital healthcare 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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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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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…

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'Unfathomable': Firefighters slam spending bill after Trump 'scuttled' 9/11 first-responders funding

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Whoops. Sick from 9/11? No money for you! This union endorsed Nicole Malliotakis for Congress, a MAGA republican.

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Currently, the World Trade Center Health Program is only fully funded through 2027.

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FDNY members frustrated after health funding left out of spending bill

A decision by legislators to remove health care funding for first responders suffering from 9/11-related illness from the federal budget has members of the city’s firefighters’ unions fired up, the Daily News is reporting.

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NYC firefighter unions furious after U.S. House dumps health care funding for 9/11 first responders

A bipartisan bill that would have provided health care for 9/11 first responders was excluded from the budget deal

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"People are starting to forget": 9/11 health care funding stripped from budget deal

The funding was included in the bipartisan federal spending bill that President-elect Donald Trump worked to kill last week.

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World Trade Center Health Program funding: FDNY labor leaders call for a fix after it's cut from federal spending bill

9/11 Health Program Funding Cut in Federal Budget, Advocates Demand Restoration

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