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To the editor:
A government shutdown was avoided when a bipartisan bill passed Congress overwhelmingly. But the bill did not include funding for the World Trade Center Health Program that serves those who were sickened at the site of the 9/11 attacks. Why not?
President Donald Trump's advisor/boss Elon Musk blocked support for a previous bill that included such funding. But neither Musk or Trump said anything about the Health Program, which also has strong bipartisan support in Congress.
Musk simply demanded the cutting of "pork." So why did that get translated into cutting the Health Fund?
Now what's often described as pork is less than 1 percent of the budget. After all, cheese museums are not that expensive.
The defense budget includes hundreds of billions of dollars of waste. But this corporate welfare is never called pork.
So the health fund is mysteriously eliminated from the budget. I guess nobody wants to take credit for something so indefensibly evil.
Richard Warren
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Shame on Trump & Musk cutting 9/11 WTC Healthcare Funding fix bill out of the Federal Budget.
I guess "Never Forget" is just a bumper sticker on their Limo's.
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