Comedian Jon Stewart scolded Congress Tuesday for failing to ensure that a victims' compensation fund set up after the 9/11 attacks never runs out of money. Add InterestStewart, a longtime advocate for 9/11 responders, angrily called out lawmakers for failing to attend a hearing on a bill to ensure the fund can pay benefits for the next 70 years. First and foremost, Stewart said, families want to know, "Why this is so damn hard and takes so damn long?" The collapse of the World Trade Center in September 2001 sent a cloud of thick dust billowing over Lower Manhattan. House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat whose district includes the World Trade Center site, said a 70% cut — or any cut — in compensation to victims of 9/11 "is simply intolerable, and Congress must not allow it."

Source: ABC News June 11, 2019 16:47 UTC