The Trump administration has secretly siphoned nearly $4 million away from a program that tracks and treats FDNY firefighters and medics suffering from 9/11 related illnesses, the Daily News has learned.It took a hell of a lot of years to even get the Worth Trade Center Health Program up and running and Trump treats it like any other fund, something he can loot with abandon.
The Treasury Department mysteriously started withholding parts of payments — nearly four years ago — meant to cover medical services for firefighters, emergency medical technicians and paramedics treated by the FDNY World Trade Center Health Program, documents obtained by The News reveal.
So tell me, again, how Trump has the backs of first responders, at least for anything other than knife practice.
Meanwhile, this morning. in Shanksville, PA, Two-faced Trump piously extolled the heroism of the first responders.
ReplyDeleteI have no words.
Yours crankily,
The New York Crank
You know, I'm kinda seeing a pattern here. It was August of 2001 when Bush was warned that Bin Laden was determined to strike in the US, and his response to the briefer was "OK, you've covered your ass."
ReplyDeleteThe resulting attack was used by the goddamn Republicans to start two wars and institute the surveillance state we still live under. And torture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_Ladin_Determined_To_Strike_in_US
Fergus was briefed on the dangers of covid in at the latest, January, and possibly as early as December, and his response was "We can't panic the stock market."
190K+ dead and no end in sight. The worst economic slump since the great depression. Tens of thousands of small businesses gone forever.
What will the next Republican president bumblefuck us into?
-Doug in Sugar Pine