Musk Cuts Pediatric Cancer Research from Budget

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

Welcome to the way CRs work.

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." ...

@#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?

@#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.

@#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?

@#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. ...

@#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.

@#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?