Musk, Trump Help Strip Health Care Funds for 9/11 First Responders

Wednesday, December 25, 2024

The city's firefighter unions slammed Sunday a decision by lawmakers two days earlier to strip vital health care funds for 9/11 first responders from the federal budget after Elon Musk and Donald Trump nuked a stopgap spending plan, threatening a government shutdown.

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Has Putin's noxious orange bitch referred to 9/11 first responders as suckers and losers yet?

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-12-25 07:58 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The less for everybody else, the more (taxpayer paid) perks for them, without blowing another hole in the national debt.

And this is just the beginning.

Stay tuned. It's going to get a lot worse. GUARANTEED!

#2 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-12-25 06:13 PM | Reply

@#2 ... The less for everybody else, the more (taxpayer paid) perks for them, without blowing another hole in the national debt. ...

It is really starting to look like MAGA wants to turn the US into a Russian-inspired oligarchy run by a dictator, where the state exists for the benefit of the wealthy and not for the workers.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-25 06:21 PM | Reply

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#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-25 06:23 PM | Reply

LAMP @ #3

"It is really starting to look like"

Considering that Trump and Musk are the two biggest money grabbers on the planet, we'd be fools to expect anything less.

And guaranteed it's going to get worse.

They'll probably self-destruct, eventually. But in the meantime, many are going to suffer for the benefit of the few.

#5 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-12-25 07:41 PM | Reply

"Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their
behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters. "

Abraham Lincoln

#6 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2024-12-25 08:05 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

SOMEBODYELSE

Words of wisdom!

#7 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-12-26 03:21 AM | Reply

"They'll probably self-destruct, eventually. But in the meantime, many are going to suffer for the benefit of the few."

And at the time of that self-destruct, all will suffer. At the start of the Great Depression, our population was 75,000,000. Today it's 330,000,000.

#8 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2024-12-26 09:18 AM | Reply

Has Putin's noxious orange bitch referred to 9/11 first responders as suckers and losers yet?

He doesn't have to say it again.

His actions will speak louder than any of his hateful words.

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-26 12:27 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Hooray for austerity

#10 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-12-26 02:38 PM | Reply

Firefighter unions chose not to endorse Harris.

Now they'll have to deal with the results of their decision.

Womp womp.

Best of luck, America.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-26 02:41 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

It is really starting to look like MAGA wants to turn the US into a Russian-inspired oligarchy run by a dictator,

Just Trump walking in the footsteps of daddy Putin.

#12 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-26 02:43 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1