Congress Shorted 9/11 Responders by $12 Billion. One proposed bill would fill that gap, two others cover less than half.

The Huffington Post‘s Michael McAuliff wrote on November 11, 2015 an article detailing cuts between $11.5 billion and $14.5 billion that were made in the original Zadroga Act to ensure its eventual passage in 2010. Now that Congress has allowed Zadroga to expire, endangering 9/11 recovery workers, three extension bills are currently in Congress. Only one of these bills (H.R. 1786/ S. 928) considers the actual needs of the sick population. The others do not, and were written by Congressmembers who did not even consult anyone in the September 11th community.