Long-term funding for first responders with lingering health issues from the 9/11 terror attacks was dropped from the federal budget to avoid a government shutdown last week, prompting criticism from the workers and their unions.
“Obviously we are not against smarter spending and we’re not against cutting wasteful spending,” James Brosi, president of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association, told The New York Times. “What we are against is universal killing of a bill without looking deeper into individual parts of it that have merit and are not wasteful spending.”
