Fire unions are angry over 9/11 health care funding being taken out of the federal budget, the fund is in danger.

Firefighters unions and advocates are calling on Congress to fail to secure funding for a health care program for 9/11 victims following its agreement to keep the government open.

Budget negotiations in Congress have resulted in the failure to fund the WTC Healthcare Program – which provides financial assistance to 125,000 people who become ill years after exposure to toxins at the disaster sites in New York, the Pentagon and Shanksville, PA. They went.

The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act passed in 2010, reauthorized in 2015, and until a few days ago was considered permanently funded Until the planned end of the program in the year 2090.

The bill was passed with bipartisan support and reauthorized.

Now, due to budget negotiations in Congress, the program’s funding is in jeopardy.

“Thousands of New York City firefighters and other sanitation workers have been diagnosed with cancer, and that number will continue to grow,” James Brosi, president of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association, said in a press release.

Governor Kathy Hochul is also angry with this disappointing development.

“’Never Forget’ in New York aren’t just words. They are a promise. A @HouseGOP broke tonight when they cut health care for 9/11 first responders from the government funding bill.” New York Governor written on xAdding, “Go back to the Capitol and do it. Yours. Work.”

Advocates are also advocating that Heroes be forced to beg the federal government for financial obligations that have already been promised.

“First responders who suffered serious and life-threatening injuries and illnesses due to exposure to toxins at Ground Zero should not walk into the halls of Congress with hats in hand, to ensure access to medical treatment.” There is ample funding available to them from the federal government,” 9/11 victims’ attorney Nicholas Papen, Esq., said in the press release.

Several FDNY unions and department members will hold an emergency press conference Sunday at 124 Liberty Street – the firehouse adjacent to the World Trade Center.