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Trump Administration Removed $4M Meant for FDNY WTC Health Screening

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 9/23/20

The decision by the Trump Administration to divert millions of dollars from the Fire Department's World Trade Center health-screening program has been denounced by a bipartisan group of New York Members of Congress, as well as first-responder advocates.

The program covers screening for thousands of firefighters and Emergency Medical Technicians who went there on 9/11 and in the months after as part of the recovery and clean-up efforts that continued through May 2002.

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