What Are Our Priorities?

As the White House commits to providing funding for 10,000 Syrian refugees to settle in the United States, the bill that funds the 9/11 World Trade Center Health Program for first responders has expired. The current federal budget proposal allocates $1.1 billion to fund the intake of 70,000 refugees this fiscal year. The 9/11 bill, first signed into law in January 2011, cost $4.2 billion over five years. The current 9/11 reauthorization bill, H.R. 1786, continues to be debated in Congress while