El-Sayed criticizes Rogers over asserted 9/11 responder health-care votes

Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, replying from his campaign-linked X account

You’re right. Sorry. Turns out you didn’t vote to deny 9/11 first responders healthcare twice. You did it NINE times.

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Abdul El-Sayed’s reply to Mike Rogers about 9/11 responder health care (opens in a new tab) - Abdul El-SayedX post 2098888435700298207; displayed September 12, 2026 timestamp; reply to Rogers’s embedded post

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Direct campaign-account reply in the ongoing El-Sayed–Rogers dispute.

Reporting

Metro Times reports on Mike Rogers’s 9/11 responder health-care votes (opens in a new tab)Published September 12, 2026; paragraphs beginning “A Metro Times review of congressional records found nine” and “You’ve got some nerve”

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Metro Times’s characterization of Rogers’s 2003–2010 record and its account of the El-Sayed–Rogers exchange. The reported nine-action total remains attributed to the outlet in this record

Before the quotation

The post quote-replied to Rogers’s September 10 X statement alleging that El-Sayed campaigned with a person who said America deserved 9/11 and demanding that he disavow Hasan Piker.

After the quotation

Metro Times reported nine votes or actions from 2003 through 2010 involving 9/11 responder health-care funding.

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El-Sayed directly criticizes Rogers’s conduct and voting record in a reply within the ongoing campaign dispute.

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