VIDEO: Jon Stewart Visits ‘The Daily Show’ to Explain Absurd Congressional Inaction
Congress has failed to renew funding for the medical treatment of 9/11 first responders who got cancer by breathing in contaminated air -- after the government had told them it was safe. Appalled by the inaction, a bearded Jon Stewart tells Trevor Noah how he stopped by senators' offices to try to shame the officials into doing something.Congress has failed to renew funding for the medical treatment of 9/11 first responders who got cancer by breathing in contaminated air — after the government had told them it was safe. Appalled by the inaction, a bearded Jon Stewart tells Trevor Noah how he stopped by senators’ offices to try to shame the officials into doing something.
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