See Jon Stewart tee off on Rand Paul for blocking a bill to reauthorize the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund
offers compensation to 9/11 survivors and first responders who have filed claims relating to various health problems they have experienced as a result of the attacks, and is set to expire in 2020. Last month, he delivered an emotional appeal to the House Judiciary Committee to deliver an emotional appeal to the House Judiciary Committee. “They responded in five seconds,” he said of the first responders, a group of which accompanied Stewart to Capitol Hill.
The House of Representatives passed the bill to reauthorize the fund last week. It’s expected to eventually pass in the Senate, as well, but it will take an additional bit of maneuvering thanks to Paul’s objection on Wednesday. Paul says he wants the aid funding for the victims to be offset with cuts in spending elsewhere. But the senator, as Stewart noted, did not apply his balanced-budget requirement when he voted to support tax cuts — disproportionately for corporations and the wealthy — that are projected to add more than $1 trillion to the deficit over a decade.
“This is about what kind of society we want to have,” Stewart told Baier on Wednesday. “At some point we have to stand up for the people who have always stood up for us, and who at this moment in time maybe cannot stand up for themselves due to their illnesses and their injuries. What Rand Paul did today in the Senate is outrageous.”
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