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Jon Stewart: Mick Mulvaney is “screwing up” health care for 9/11 first responders

Stewart congratulates Mulvaney for a “special kind of incompetence”

9/11 Health Bill Sponsors, Jon Stewart, Advocates Call on Mulvaney to Leave World Trade Center Health Program Alone

/11 Health Program beneficiaries and advocates came together at the Capitol today to demand that Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney withdraw his ill-thought out proposal to separate the World Trade Center Health Program…

President’s budget proposal worries 9/11 responders

Proposed changes to the World Trade Center Health Program have Sept. 11 first responders worried about their future health care as Ground Zero-related complications continue to affect them.

Jon Stewart, 9/11 first responders take health care fight to Capitol Hill

Former ‘Daily Show’ host Jon Stewart joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers and 9/11 first responders on Capitol Hill Monday to demand the Office of Management and Budget leave their health care alone.

Rep. Peter King, others denounce proposed Zadroga changes

King was among New York members of Congress who criticized a proposed change in leadership of the federal health program for 9/11 first responders.

Comedian Jon Stewart accuses White House of ‘screwing’ 9/11 first responders

Program protects those who worked at ‘ground zero’

Comedian Jon Stewart accuses White House of ‘screwing’ 9/11 first responders

Comedian Jon Stewart joined advocates on Capitol Hill on Monday to pressure White House budget director Mick Mulvaney to abandon a proposal that they say could threaten health care treatment for 9/11 first responders.

Jon Stewart, officials say Trump’s proposed budget endangers 9/11 health program

Creator of organization that assists first responders says the bill would delay treatment

Jon Stewart joins 9/11 first responders to save health program

Comedian Jon Stewart joined 9/11 first responders at the Capitol Monday to speak against proposed changes to the World Trade Center Health Program tucked inside President Trump’s 2019 budget.