Comedian Jon Stewart visited Capitol Hill on Monday to demand lawmakers passlegislation that would permanently finance a federal victims' compensationfund for Sept
The Justice Department announced last week that a lack of funding for the VCF would lead to compensation cuts as large 50 to 70 percent for first responders who were made sick by toxins they were exposed to during 9/11 rescue and recovery efforts.
Roughly 45,000 people are suffering from at least one 9/11-related chronic health condition and more than 10,000 have been certified with a 9/11-related cancer, Stewart wrote in an Op-Ed for The New York Daily News on Monday. “This is nonsense,” he said at the press conference. “You guys know it. I know it. This is theater. We’re all down here today. There’s no reason to have dragged these people down here. .... It’s bullshit. You know it and I know it. So let’s stop the nonsense.”
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