Former Daily Show host and ardent Trump critic Jon Stewart has shocked his fans by praising the President's handling of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund.
In the past, Stewart has been famously opposed to the Commander In Chief, even branding him a 'giant turd asteroid' on Stephen Colbert's show last year.
But the comedian made a point of praising Trump's Justice Department last week for its managing of the compensation fund, a cause Stewart has championed for more than a decade.
The fund compensates first responders and relief workers who have developed chronic health problems from injuries and toxins they breathed in while digging through the rubble of the World Trade Center after the terror attacks on September 11, 2001.
Trump capitalized on the positive remarks from one of his harshest critics, retweeting a clip of Stewart on Sunday.
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Jon Stewart praised Donald Trump's U.S. Justice Dept. on Sunday for its management of the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund for 9/11 first responders
Funding for the 9/11 victims program has faced opposition from fiscal conservatives on Capitol Hill in previous years
Stewart said: 'I'm going to say this now. Are the cameras on? Is everybody on me? The Trump Justice Department is doing an excellent job administrating this program. The claims are going through faster and the awards are coming through.'
He then tapped the microphone as members of the audience laugh, before adding; 'I don't know about anything else, I'm not going to comment about anything else'.
VCF leaders on Friday announced the program has 'insufficient money,' CBS News reported.
Only $2 billion of the $7.3 billion Congress allocated for the program remains. And future payments to the estimated 40,000 program applicants will be cut by 50-70 percent unless new funds are allocated by lawmakers.
Previously, the VCF program has faced resistance from fiscally conservative lawmakers in Washington who have been hesitant to permanently fund it.
Stewart has called on Congress to pass a proposed bill that would permanently fund the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund, preventing Congress from ever debating whether or not to fund the program ever again
In 2010, House Republicans voted against a bill proposed by Democrats to fund the program, according to the New York Times.
That resistance has angered Stewart, who has spent the last week in Washington D.C. encouraging lawmakers to pass a new VCF funding bill dubbed the 'Never Forget the Heroes: Permanent Authorization of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act'.
The measure would prevent lawmakers from halting related aid for the 9/11 families ever again.
'Let's stop the nonsense,' Stewart said on Sunday, standing in front of a group of 9/11 first responders. 'Ultimately we're going to get to a point where the light shines and shame is brought.'
He went on to praise the Trump administration for its management of the VCF program.
Stewart spent Monday morning continuing to campaign for the funding bill, saying it was an opportunity to write a final chapter on the 9/11 saga.
'We cannot force the men and women that so heroically went down to Ground Zero and stayed there for nine, ten months disrupting their lives as well, we can't force them to have to fight for this anymore,' he told Fox News Monday morning.
'I know Congress is a bastion of fiscal responsibility as you can tell from the marble and gold rotunda that we're standing in. They've got to understand in the larger scheme of things, this is not a lot of money. But what it will do for these families is enormous. This is a national embarrassment and crisis. And they've got to step up.'
Stewart spent Monday morning continuing to campaign for the funding bill, saying it was an opportunity to write a final chapter on the 9/11 saga
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Main photo article Former Daily Show host and ardent Trump critic Jon Stewart has shocked his fans by praising the President’s handling of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund.
In the past, Stewart has been famously opposed to the Commander In Chief, even branding him a ‘giant turd asteroid’ on S...
It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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