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Good morning, readers.

At the end of last week, Congress passed the “big beautiful” budget and reconciliation bill, and President Trump signed it into law. 

The bill will do a lot of harmful things in order to finance tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires—in North Carolina, it could kill Medicaid for more than 600,000 people and it decimates food assistance for the state’s poorest residents, including 555,000 children. 

And, for a smaller group of people—the more than 2,000 9/11 survivors who have relocated to the state—the bill puts their health care at risk by preserving $1.2 billion in cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and failing to fully fund the federal World Trade Center Health Program, which now faces a $3 billion shortfall. 

These are people like Harold Delancey and Robert Young, former NYPD officers and first responders. They’re people like James Stack, who went to rebuild near Ground Zero in the days after 9/11, and Lorraine Meehan, whose late husband, John, a federal law enforcement officer, was tasked with recovering the bodies of the dead. 

“There were people from all 50 states who responded in New York, and New Yorkers retired to all of those 50 states as well,” says lawyer Michael Barasch, a 9/11 survivor himself who has represented survivors and their families for the past two decades. “They all promised they’d never forget. Every politician loves to say it.”

While lawmakers will have another chance to include funding in the federal defense spending bill coming up this fall, this time around, they do seem to have forgotten. Read the story about the Triangle’s 9/11 survivors below. 

—Jane

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Wondering where you can take the kids to burn off energy indoors? Looking for fun ideas to cool off as a family? Send your questions about parenting during the summer in the Triangle to Raleigh editor (and mom) Jane Porter.

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WEATHER: Tropical Storm Chantal walloped parts of the Triangle late Sunday, causing flooding, evacuations and road closures, WRAL reports. Areas around Eastgate in Chapel Hill and parts of Durham County near the Eno River were hit particularly hard.

DURHAM: From higher endowment taxes to Medicaid cuts, The Chronicle looks at how the federal budget bill affects Duke.

STATE: President Trump froze $169 million for North Carolina schools. WUNC reports the money was intended to be spent on things like teacher development, after school, and English-learner programs.

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