Never forget that it took 10 years to pass a bill for federal funding for victims and 18 years to secure it forever.<p><a href="https://www.consumersafety.org/news/9-11-zadroga-act-18-year-wait/" rel="nofollow">https://www.consumersafety.org/news/9-11-zadroga-act-18-year...</a><p>> In February 2019, the VCF Special Master, Rupa Bhattacharyya, announced in her monthly status report that the VCF was running low on funds. Out of the $7.375 billion allotted to the fund in 2015, the VCF had just $2 billion left to cover victim compensation claims for the next two years. To stretch the remaining funds and cover the increasing number of claims filed, Bhattacharyya proposed a 50-70% cut to compensation awards.<p>These people will gladly slash a victim fund to save a buck, and then print $6T to bailout their rich friends.<p>They will help no one if it doesn't help their careers.
The most notable detail about this was that, at the time, US Environmental Protection Agency was loudly insisting that the dust cloud was harmless while their own scientific staff were on the scene, with equipment paid for out-of-pocket, demonstrating it was very, very far from harmless.<p>The same thing was happening in Flint, Michigan, later. EPA management under Bush and Trump was national disgrace.