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In a Rose Garden event Monday morning, the president signed the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund bill into law.
The legislation will provide funding for the thousands of first responders and volunteers who worked at Ground Zero in New York City, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks— and now suffer from cancer and other diseases related to the toxic environment at the sites of the attacks.