New York’s firefighters union demanded that the US Senate pass a bill Tuesday supporting 9/11 first responders, after a pair of penny-pinching Republican lawmakers slammed the brakes on the measure last week citing the national debt.

“Senator Mike Lee of Utah and Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky: Make this right, thank you,” Uniformed Firefighters Association President Gerard Fitzgerald said during a rally at the union’s Manhattan office Monday. “Victims’ families need this money to stay in or maintain their homes.”

Lee, aided by Paul, last Wednesday put a procedural hold on a bill to replenish the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund through 2092 — arguing that the bill, expected to cost $10.2 billion over the next decade, would add too much to the nation’s $22-trillion-and-growing in debt.

Paul’s “motive was to get headlines and he’s got them,” Fitzgerald fumed, adding he was “irritated” that Lee would suggest the fund could be abused when there was no evidence of that happening.

The UFA met with Lee’s staff but could not get assurances he would be on board with the bill.

Lee on Thursday suggested he would support a shorter, 10-year funding plan.

“We appreciate the [74] senators that have signed on to this, we’re hopeful tomorrow it will go through and be on the president’s desk by the end of the week,” Fitzgerald said.

“We have not been in touch with the president, we will reach out and hopefully he will take the call or a meeting if need be — he never said he wouldn’t sign it,” he continued, adding “we’re very hopeful he’ll sign it without incident.”

The bill has already cleared the House and Senate leaders have agreed to take it up Tuesday.