Friday, December 20, 2024

Musk Cuts Pediatric Cancer Research from Budget

The slimmed-down version was stripped of language that would have allowed children with relapsed cancer to undergo treatments with a combination of cancer drugs and therapies. (Currently the Food and Drug Administration is only authorized to direct pediatric cancer trials of single drugs.) The bill also didn't include an extension of a program that gave financial lifelines, in the form of vouchers, to small pharmaceutical companies working on rare pediatric diseases. It was also missing earlier provisions that would have allowed for kids on Medicaid or CHIP"that is, poor children"to access medically complex care across state lines. 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.

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LOL

Dear Magat Scum Parents of Kids with Cancer

Is this what you voted for?

Point and laugh at the magat scum parents of kids with cancer.

You'd think THEY would have thought through their votes better than they did.

Me? If my kid had cancer I'd vote for the candidate who WOULDN'T cut funding to save my kid's life.

But that is just me.

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Until Democrats realize what the American people really want, they will continue to lose..

#1 | Posted by boaz at 2024-12-17 05:59 PM

So, Boaz, do the American people want funding for pediatric cancer cures to be cut?

#1 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-12-20 04:27 PM

That bill already passed the house and the Democrats in the Senate have held it up since September. Why was it also tacked onto the CR to keep the government open?

#2 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-12-20 05:00 PM

@#2 ... Why was it also tacked onto the CR to keep the government open? ...

Welcome to the way CRs work.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-20 05:06 PM

Who is Chip Roy? Texas representative shreds GOP over debt ceiling deal, 'It's embarrassing and ...'
timesofindia.indiatimes.com

... Roy's fiery critique of his party's fiscal policies and Trump's retaliatory threats have deepened divisions ahead of critical discussions on the spending bill.

Texas Representative Chip Roy has ignited a heated feud within the Republican Party, taking aim at his colleagues and former President Donald Trump over the federal debt ceiling negotiations. Roy's fiery critique of his party's fiscal policies and Trump's retaliatory threats have deepened divisions ahead of critical discussions on the spending bill.

In an impassioned tirade, Roy accused his Republican colleagues of abandoning fiscal responsibility, yelling, "You've added to the debt since you were given the majority again on November 5th. It's embarrassing. It's shameful."

He didn't stop there, shredding the proposed bill for its $5 trillion increase to the national debt. "Yes, I think this bill is better than it was yesterday in certain respects. But to take this bill yesterday and congratulate yourself because it's shorter in pages, but increases the debt by $5 trillion is asinine," he said.

"I am absolutely sickened by a party that campaigns on fiscal responsibility and has the temerity to go forward to the American people and say you think this is fiscally responsible," Roy continued. "It is absolutely ridiculous." ...


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-20 05:13 PM

Well, that's how CRs used to work before Trump.

#5 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-12-20 05:13 PM

#5

Before Your L'ard and M'assah King Trump the First of the New American Fascist Party, you mean.

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-20 05:20 PM

Yep now an unelected billionaire dictates to congress what they will fund or be primaried

Thanks magat scum

#7 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-12-20 05:21 PM

Who has been running the country for the last four years and why do you only care now?

#8 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-12-20 05:28 PM

Who has been running the country for the last four years

President Joe Biden, his Cabinet, and their advisors.

You know, the way it's supposed to work.

#9 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-12-20 05:31 PM

Biden is in charge, sure Jan. That's not what fifty White House say.

#10 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-12-20 05:37 PM

@#5 ... Well, that's how CRs used to work before Trump. ...

Pres-elect Trump showed off his weakness with this fiasco that Mr Musk and Pres-elect Trump created.

38 House Republicans defied both Mr Musk and Pres-elect Trump in voting down the bill.

Even after threats by Pres-elect Trump to primary anyone who opposed the bill, 38 House Republicans still voted against it.

Pres-elect Trump thought he could bully the House Republicans, and 38 still voted against the bill.

How weak does that make Pres-elect Trump look?


#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-20 05:38 PM

Biden is in charge, sure Jan. That's not what fifty White House insiders now say.

#12 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-12-20 05:38 PM

Ask Redial, Trump isn't the President.

#13 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-12-20 05:39 PM

So Elon Musk messes up the congressional budget Biden doesn't control and it's Biden's fault.

You're a power tool. Just an absolute moron.

#14 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-12-20 05:42 PM

Visitor has 50 invisible drones in the WH, reporting in directly to his head.

It's Corporate Controlled quantum teleportation over the public airwaves. He rarely ever uses the Tin Foil Hat anymore to keep safe.

#15 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-20 05:44 PM

#14

Ok that makes sense of his Black-Decker tat.

#16 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-20 05:47 PM

Well let's see what Biden and Harris have to say about this budget kerfuffle.












































#17 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-12-20 05:48 PM

@#13 ... Ask Redial, Trump isn't the President. ...

I never said he was. I have referred to him as Pres-elect Trump.

Even with that in mind, this fiasco that Pres-elect Trump and Mr Musk created shows just how weak Pres-elect Trump is.

38 House Republicans voted against him and Mr Musk.

#18 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-20 05:53 PM

They've started speechifying before the vote. It will be an incredible, unprecedented, miracle if they get it passed in time!

#19 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-12-20 05:54 PM

@#17 ... Well let's see what Biden and Harris have to say about this budget kerfuffle. ...

They were in favor of the bill that Mr Musk killed, and Pres-elect Trump followed his lead.

The bill that was killed was a bi-partisan-supported bill that the leaders of the House and Senate and Pres Biden were in favor of.

Then Mr Musk and Pres-elect Trump got involved, killed the bi-partisan bill, and put forward a bill in the House that was written by House Republicans without any input from House Democrats of the Senate.

38 House Republicans defied Pres-elect Trump and Mr Musk in voting against that bill.

What will happen come January when the Republican majority in the House is less than 5?


#20 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-20 05:59 PM

I'm sure Biden and Harris were favor of that 1500 pages of pork, it's why we have inflation and areq on the brink of collapse.

#21 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-12-20 06:26 PM

@#21 ... I'm sure Biden and Harris were favor ...

As were enough House and Senate Republicans to pass the bi-partisan bill that Mr Musk and Pres-elect Trump killed.

As Texas Republican Rep Rick Coy said (quote in #4)...

... "Yes, I think this bill is better than it was yesterday in certain respects.

But to take this bill yesterday and congratulate yourself because it's shorter in pages, but increases the debt by $5 trillion is asinine," he said. ...



#22 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-20 06:31 PM

Who really cares if the government stays open? Not me.

#23 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-12-20 07:11 PM

Looks like a huge win for Trump. Now to the Senate and then Jill has to put the pen in Biden's hand and drag it across the page.

#24 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-12-20 07:16 PM

The bloated rapist didn't get his debt ceiling suspension. Lol

#25 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-12-20 07:20 PM

The bloated rapist didn't get his debt ceiling suspension.

Lewzer.

#26 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-12-20 07:26 PM

@#25 ... didn't get his debt ceiling suspension. ...

Exactly.

That debt ceiling increase was the one main thing that Pres-elect trump added to Mr Musk's comments.

Pres-elect Trump needs that debt ceiling increase so that he can give the wealthy and corporations more tax decreases and pass that resulting multi-trillion dollar increase in debt burden onto future generations of workers.




#27 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-20 07:44 PM

Pres-elect Trump needs that debt ceiling increase

And specifically stated he wanted it before he gets into office so he can blame Biden for it.

Lewzer.

#28 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-12-20 07:48 PM

- Looks like a huge win for Trump.

He demanded something before he would sign the Bill... and they ignored him. His own Party. And they will stiff him on some Appointments, too, now that they see he's all bluster.

Of course, many of us have seen that all along.

#29 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-20 07:56 PM

approve, not sign

#30 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-20 07:57 PM

Lewzer is just a "Handmaid" so a South African can be President. Too funny.

There will not be enough popcorn.

#31 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-12-20 08:02 PM

It's called winning.

#32 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-12-20 08:41 PM


@#29 ... And they will stiff him on some Appointments, too, now that they see he's all bluster. ...

The Senate advice and consents are in January, so, lots can change between now and then. [aside: I suspect January will be interesting]

But the simple fact that 38 House Republicans voted against Mr Musk and Pres-elect Trump is telling.

Stated from a different aspect ... if the House Republicans turned down Mr Musk and Pres-elect Trump, what will the usually more staid Senate Republicans do?


#33 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-20 08:42 PM

It's called winning.

Not getting what you demand and looking like fool in the process is "winning". Ok.

There ain't gonna be enough popcorn.

#34 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-12-20 08:49 PM

@#32 ... It's called winning. ...

Two simple questions ...

1) what, exactly, is the "it's you refer to?

2) why is it winning?

thx.

#35 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-20 09:01 PM

Can we cut Musk? Preferably at the carotid.

#36 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-12-20 10:29 PM

Who really cares if the government stays open? Not me.

#23 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-12-20 07:11 PM | Reply

Military families that like to eat. You're a retard.

#37 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-12-20 11:36 PM

That's been well established at this point.

#38 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-12-20 11:56 PM

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