WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, said Friday that he is committed to getting more money for a federal program that provides health care to people affected by the September 11, 2001 attacks. .
The deficit-facing program was created to address medical challenges that arose for those who were exposed on the day of the attacks and in the months after, including police and firefighters who have struggled with high rates of cancer in the intervention. Two decades.
Speaking in Manhattan, Schumer said House Democrats have already agreed to include the Survivors’ Health Financing Correction Act and Respond to 9/11 in their version of the $ 3.5 billion tax and spending package being rolled out. currently drafting. He said he hopes to add it to the Senate version. Democrats hope to pass the package later this year.
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