"People are starting to forget": 9/11 health care funding stripped from budget deal
SalonLong-term funding for first responders with lingering health issues from the 9/11 terror attacks was dropped from the federal budget to avoid a government shutdown last week, prompting criticism from the workers and their unions. “Obviously we are not against smarter spending and we’re not against cutting wasteful spending,” James Brosi, president of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association, told The New York Times. “What we are against is universal killing of a bill without looking deeper into individual parts of it that have merit and are not wasteful spending.” Over 130,000 people are still suffering from respiratory ailments and other illnesses from 9/11 and over 35,000 people in the healthcare program have been diagnosed with cancer, Brosi told The Times. “There is no reason that those people should continue to have to come to Capitol Hill to beg for funding.” D’Esposito voted to pass the government’s spending plan, despite the 9/11 funding being left out.
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