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"Elon Killed the Budget Deal. Cancer Research for Kids Was Collateral Damage."...Unlike you, I have

Author: TyroneIrish (20692 Posts - Joined: Oct 8, 2020)
Posted at 11:19 am on Dec 25, 2024
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evidence to prove Musk killed funding for Pediatric Cancer Research...here's an excerpt from just one of many journalistic investigations...
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For political veterans, however, the most striking absence in the revised bill was the language that would have extended funding for the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Program.

The program, named after a 10-year-old Virginia girl who died from an inoperable brain tumor in 2013, was something of a miracle to begin with. When it passed in 2014, the Obama administration and congressional Republicans had been at a standstill over federal spending. Sequestration cuts had taken a big bite out of the budget of the National Institutes of Health. The $126 million that the bill authorized over a ten-year period to help fund pediatric cancer research was minor compared to the $1.55 billion the NIH had lost in appropriations. But it was also the product of painstaking negotiations, with then-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) expending significant political capital to ensure that the law got passed.

When it did, it resembled a rare moment of serenity in an increasingly bitter and divided capital. Gabriella Miller’s family, who started the Smashing Walnuts Foundation, attended the signing ceremony.

“It was a turning point in pediatric cancer research and I’ve never been prouder of the entire Congress for rallying behind it,” recalled Rory Cooper, a former Cantor aide.

But the funding needed to be extended. And the bill that the current crop of congressional leaders agreed to earlier this week did just that, devoting an estimated $190 million to the program through 2033.

The presumption among the compromise bill’s authors and advocates was that it would sail through. Rep. Jennifer Wexton and Sen. Tim Kaine, both from the Miller family’s home state of Virginia, put out a press release applauding its inclusion in the continuing resolution. The Facebook page for the Smashing Walnuts Foundation put up a post declaring that the “Gabriella Miller Kids First 2.0” had passed “and will be signed into law!” It was signed by Gabriella’s mother, Ellyn Miller. “From the bottom of my heart,” it read, “THANK YOU!”

That was December 17. By December 19, the provision had been axed from the bill, after Musk went on an X rampage, tweeting that the bill was a Christmas tree that was antithetical to conservative, small-government ambitions and threatening the primary lawmakers who supported it.

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Plutocrats, like Musk, have no idea how government works...they are like Bullies in a China Shop...and people suffer as a result...even clueless people like yourself.


Link: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-musk-killed-budget-deal-children-cancer-funding-collateral-damage

Replies to: ""Elon Killed the Budget Deal. Cancer Research for Kids Was Collateral Damage."...Unlike you, I have"

  • "Funding for Pediatric Cancer Research Removed From Spending Bill"...TrumpHandler Musk at work... [LINK] - TyroneIrish - 3:42pm 12/23/24 (26) [View All]
    • Easy solution: separate bill. [NT] - iairishcheeks - 4:24pm 12/23/24
      • Separate funding bill proposed last March in anticipation by GOP. Schumer/Ds cont to block vote [LINK] - BaronVonZemo - 4:42pm 12/23/24
        • The left really loves harming kids. [NT] - jakers - 6:54pm 12/23/24
        • One more time...Funding for Pediatric Cancer Research was in the Bipartisan Bill until Musk took it - TyroneIrish - 6:46pm 12/23/24
          • It's your fault. You people killed the standalone bill. - jakers - 6:53pm 12/23/24
            • Let's try a third time...the funding was in the bipartisan bill...ready to be approved by the Senate - TyroneIrish - 7:26pm 12/23/24
              • It's clear the G.O.P. wanted the funding. You people wanted the pork. [NT] - jakers - 9:51pm 12/23/24
                • LOL...4th time...Dems supported the Bipartisan Bill WITH $$ for Pediatric Cancer Research...it's not - TyroneIrish - 10:43pm 12/23/24
                  • Again, you can't respond to the fact that the left killed the bill. Why did you do this to kids? [NT] - jakers - 10:52am 12/24/24
                    • "Elon Killed the Budget Deal. Cancer Research for Kids Was Collateral Damage."...Unlike you, I have [LINK] - TyroneIrish - 11:19am 12/25/24
                • Tyrone uses "..." in his run on mind vomit when he is frustrated. [NT] - iairishcheeks - 10:07pm 12/23/24
            • "his people" He can run, but he can't hide.LOL He really is - ColeyO - 7:18pm 12/23/24
        • Tyrone Dems at work. Wonder if he objects. [NT] - NedoftheHill - 5:42pm 12/23/24
          • He, along with the other idiots is why the American people spoke [NT] - Frankx - 7:17pm 12/23/24
        • Much easier to blame an unelected person and a person yet to take office. [NT] - iairishcheeks - 5:20pm 12/23/24
      • There wasn't enough Senate "Floor Time" to pass separate bills...not sure if Musk or Trump [LINK] - TyroneIrish - 4:36pm 12/23/24
        • Do yr lips ever get tired from kissing Ty's ass? [NT] - ColeyO - 7:28pm 12/23/24
        • Who runs the Senate? - iairishcheeks - 5:10pm 12/23/24
          • The simple truth is that $$ for Pediatric Cancer Research was IN the Bipartisan Bill...until... - TyroneIrish - 6:54pm 12/23/24
            • Musk and Trump have zero power to take anything out of a Bill. - iairishcheeks - 9:58pm 12/23/24
              • "How Trump and Elon Musk derailed bipartisan plans for a funding bill, bringing on risk of shutdown [LINK] - TyroneIrish - 11:35pm 12/23/24
                • Not reading that bullshit. - iairishcheeks - 12:26am 12/24/24
                  • Hide your eyes!!!!! [NT] - Frank L - 10:51am 12/24/24
    • Need money for those billionaire tax cuts to come. And we are sure fiscally disciplined! Let’s - Frank L - 3:55pm 12/23/24
      • Another Stock Buyback is WAY more important than finding cures or treatments for obscure pediatric - TyroneIrish - 4:10pm 12/23/24
        • That’s what it is, an autocratic oligarchy. [NT] - Frank L - 4:11pm 12/23/24
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