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Blumenthal: Trump’s Budget Endangers 9/11 Responder Health Program
President Trump’s budget proposal calls for a restructuring of the World Trade Center Health Program that provides medical treatment to 9/11 first responders and survivors.
FDNY union calls out Trump proposal to hit 9/11 responder agency
The city firefighters union is blasting a detail tucked into the President Trump’s budget that would reorganize how the federal government handles health treatment for 9/11 first responders.
Piling on 9/11’s heroes by messing around with the WTC Health Program
It took years of struggle for the heroes who labored on the smoldering pile after 9/11 to shame Washington to take responsibility for the deteriorating health of those poisoned by the toxins unleashed when the WTC fell.
Gillibrand Leads Letter With Senators Schumer, Menendez, Booker, Blumenthal To Call On OMB Director Mick Mulvaney To Protect The World Trade Center Health Program
WTCHP Provides Monitoring and Treatment to More Than 83,000 First Responders and Survivors Who Became Sick After Exposure to Toxins at World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Shanksville Crash Site
Trump budget could gut agency that treats 9/11 first responders
Lawmakers say a proposal to reorganize the World Trade Center Health Program is disturbing and suspicious
Rep. Peter King: Donald Trump plan could endanger 9/11 responders
King says a plan to reorganize the World Trade Center Health Program could deprive participants of occupational health experts.
FDNY ‘Cook Off’ fund-raiser aims to help 9/11 firefighters battling cancer
They’re not just fighting fires. More than 1,000 active and retired FDNY members are battling 9/11-related cancers — and the department is holding a cook-off to raise funds and awareness.
Lawmakers call for withdrawal of Trump proposal that could impact 9/11 responders’ health care
A bipartisan group of New York lawmakers called on White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney to scrap a proposal in President Trump’s proposed budget plan they say could threaten the health treatment of 9/11 first responders.
9/11 responders’ health treatment and monitoring threatened by Trump’s budget plan
Hidden in the fine print of President Trump’s latest budget proposal is a detail that could directly impact 9/11 first responders: The reorganization of the federal agency that oversees their health treatment and monitoring.
New York Lawmakers: Trump Administration Budget Plan Could Endanger 9/11 Responders’ Health
Members of the New York City Congressional delegation on Sunday urged a rollback of a Trump administration plan that they said would risk the health of first responders who worked during the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks…