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.
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.
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." ...
Here's the reality. One part of the proposed funding for pediatric cancer research was restored, but not all of it:
But in the end, the Senate on Friday renewed the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act, named after a 10-year-old girl who died from an inoperable brain tumor in 2013, in a unanimous vote. The bill extended $12.6 million in annual cancer research funding through 2031, allowing the National Institutes of Health to continue researching the biology of childhood cancer and structural birth defects.www.nytimes.com
But three other cancer-related measures were scrapped at the end of 118th Congress. Those include a new policy that would have made it easier for low-income children on Medicaid to cross state lines for specialized cancer treatment, and two bills aimed at incentivizing pediatric cancer drug development.
The original funding was for $199 million, so if only $12.6 million was restored (still trying to verify this), that is still a significant cut to pediatric cancer research all so that billionaires keep their hefty tax cuts:
Journalist Sam Stein on X: "And there you have it. New bill removes funding for this bipartisan child cancer research program. $190 million -- a small drop comparatively -- is now gone. Will need to be passed at some other point, if it can get passed at all."
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