Continuing to advocate for 9/11 survivors and first responders, Jon Stewart took his case to Fox News on Sunday. See what he had to say
survivors and first responders, who are waiting for lawmakers to extend September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. For nearly 10 minutes, the former, only a few members of which attended the hearing. “It would be one thing if their callous indifference and rank hypocrisy were benign, but it’s not,” Stewart said. “Your indifference costs these men and women their most valuable commodity: time. It’s the one thing they’re running out of.
The 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund, which is set to expire at the end of 2020, offers compensation to 9/11 survivors and first responders who filed claims relating to various health problems they have experienced as a result of the attacks. Stewart wants the fund to be extended through 2090 so that no one affected by 9/11 will “have to come down, hat in hand, [and] beg for this kind of thing again.
“Gosh, I hadn’t looked at that lately,” he said Wednesday when asked if he supports the fund. “I’ll have to. We’ve always dealt with that in the past in a compassionate way, and I assume we will again.” He did not say whether he supports the fund’s reauthorization.
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