i had this exact same problem in 2018 when we reauthorize the vcf.-- >> jon: in the middle of it. i remember that. >> because we didn't have enough money and it was thanks to you -- >> jon: all those people were tireless and many of them were very, very sick. to give you a sense of what that is, in the middle of the vcf funding and the victims compensation, if your cancer had just been -- if you had the unlucky occurrence of having a cancer diagnosis in 2021 or 2019 when the funding lost money, you would not have gotten the full benefit because they had to resource guard. you had to resource guard. >> i had to. >> jon: it must have been heartbreaking. >> that is exactly what is happening to the world trade center health program right now. and doctor howard, who was a trump appointee, reappointed to his position in the last part of the trump administration, is going to have to make decisions very soon about how many people he can continue to allow into the program if they do not reup the funding. and so members of congress, including the new york dele