In mid-December, New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced a long-sought triumph for 9/11 first responders: they had secured funding for the World Trade Center Health Program through 2040 in a proposed bipartisan budget deal.
The program, initially established in 2010 by the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, supports more than 137,000 people but has been running short on funds as the number of first responders and survivors falling ill has increased in the last decade.
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