The last-minute decision by Congressional leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, to take the $3.7 billion in funding for the 9/11 WTC Health Program out of the $1.7 trillion Omnibus spending bill is being blasted as a betrayal by 9/11 WTC civilian survivors and the unions that represent essential workers that continue to lose members to WTC diseases.
The massive end of the year appropriation package that keeps the federal government open until September sets aside $858 billion in military spending including $28 billion to cover Pentagon spending on the ongoing war in the Ukraine.
