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Jon Stewart, lawmakers slam Mulvaney proposal on 9/11 health program

Comedian Jon Stewart and a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Monday sharply criticized a Trump administration proposal to restructure an agency that provides health-care assistance to survivors and first responders of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

9/11 first responders must not be abandoned

Hidden among President Trump’s budget proposal is a clause that may cut back on the healthcare provided to the 9/11 first responders.

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.