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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 30 July 2019

SEPT 11 FUND Trump did not dwell on that
Continued from Front division when he signed
Though their ranks shrunk, the bill. The bill-signing
as emergency workers prompted a round of ap-
died of cancers and other plause from first respond-
diseases linked to the toxic ers in the Rose Garden as
fumes from the World Trade well as Trump's personal at-
Center rubble, the fate torney, Rudy Giuliani, who
of the funding had never was mayor of New York
been permanently guaran- City during the attacks and
teed. was widely praised for his
NYPD detective Luis Alva- leadership in the aftermath
rez appeared gaunt and of the World Trade Center
ill when he testified before collapse.
Congress last month, urg- Trump, whose real estate
ing lawmakers to pass the holdings that day included
measure to help his fellow some 20 buildings in Man-
first responders even if it hattan, played up his own
was too late for him. personal connection on
"You made me come Monday to the World Trade
down here the day before Center site.
my 69th round of chemo "I was down there also, but
and I'm going to make sure I'm not considering myself
that you never forget to a first responder," the presi-
take care of the 9/11 first dent said.
responders," Alvarez said. But a number of the presi-
He died two weeks later . dent's recollections about President Donald Trump holds up the signed H.R. 1327 bill, an act ensuring that a victims' com-
More than 40,000 people his own personal experi- pensation fund related to the Sept. 11 attacks never runs out of money, in the Rose Garden of the
have applied to the fund, ences that day cannot be White House, Monday, July 29, 2019, in Washington.
which covers illnesses po- verified, including his claims Associated Press
tentially related to being that he sent construction
at the World Trade Cen- crews to help clear the site,
ter site, the Pentagon or that he had "hundreds" of
Shanksville, Pennsylvania, friends die at Ground Zero
after the attacks. Stewart, and that he witnessed tele-
who made the cause a vision coverage of Muslims
personal passion project, in the United States cheer-
tore into the lawmakers' ing the destruction of the
inaction when he testified iconic skyscrapers.
alongside Alvarez, creat- The ceremony was attend-
ing a moment that was fre- ed by a handful of law-
quently replayed on cable makers — all Republican
news. — though a White House
"Hundreds died in an in- official, speaking on condi-
stant. Thousands more tion of anonymity to share
poured in to continue to planning details, said that
fight for their brothers and all members of Congress
sisters," Stewart said before had been invited to the
the committee. "They did event.
their jobs with courage, The invitations went out Fri-
grace, tenacity, humility. day and Saturday.
Eighteen years later, do But Rep. Carolyn Maloney,
yours." D-New York, who spon-
A pair of Republican sena- sored the legislation in the
tors, Rand Paul of Kentucky House, said she "never re-
and Mike Lee of Utah, vot- ceived it.
ed against the measure And I looked at all of my
this month, preventing its emails," she told The Associ-
adoption from being unan- ated Press.
imous. Still, she said she was "just
Both cited the need to elim- pleased that it was signed
inate unnecessary spend- into law. It is a great day
ing and offset the measure for America. It is above
with budget cuts. politics."q