As Trump marks 9/11, report finds he's withheld millions from sick first responders

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By Emily Singer -September 11, 2020 10:44 AM

Trump's Treasury Department kept $4 million in funds meant to treat firefighters and paramedics who got sick with 9/11-related illnesses.

On the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. on Sept. 11, 2001, the New York Daily News is reporting that the Trump administration has withheld roughly $4 million in funds allocated to cover health care costs for firefighters and other first responders who got sick after responding to the attacks.

"Here we have sick World Trade Center-exposed firefighters and EMS workers, at a time when the city is having difficult financial circumstances due to COVID-19, and we're not getting the money we need to be able to treat these heroes," Dr. David Prezant, the FDNY’s chief medical officer and director of the FDNY World Trade Center Health Program, said.

The report comes as Donald Trump and Mike Pence mark the anniversary of the attacks, which killed 2,977 people at three different sites: the World Trade Center in New York; the Pentagon outside of Washington, D.C.; and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers on a hijacked plane prevented it from being used as a missile against its original target.

Trump, for his part, already has a checkered past when it comes to his response to 9/11.

https://americanindependent.com/donald-trump-9-11-first-responders-nyfd-ground-zero-funds/

You know we have been thru this every year since this asshole came into power, and every year we see that he is a habitual liar and he tries to make a buck off any and everything he comes in contact with or injects himself with and his q-tip hair second in command..............is just as maniacal as he is...................I and thousands of others that were on the United and American team during this event along with the first respondents are pissed off, right along with the families that lost loved ones and not one Saudi government official linked to this event has been requested to come to this country to answer some questions of that funding, of that operation........this chump should not be given air time on anything...........he is a GD liar.............and he has Blood on his Hands...............over 190,000 american families have lost loved ones to Covid19 and he tries to recite the pledge of Allegiance during this day and he could not, what country does he swear to allegiance too, because it sure as hell is not this one in any shape of form..............