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Friday, December 20, 2024

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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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 | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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 | Reply

@#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 | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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 | Reply

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

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

#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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

@#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 | Reply

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 | Reply

Ask Redial, Trump isn't the President.

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

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 | Reply | Newsworthy 2

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 | Reply

#14

Ok that makes sense of his Black-Decker tat.

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

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 | Reply

@#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 | Reply

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 | Reply

@#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 | Reply

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 | Reply

@#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 | Reply

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

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

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 | Reply

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

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

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

Lewzer.

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

@#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 | Reply

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 | Reply

- 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 | Reply

approve, not sign

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

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 | Reply

It's called winning.

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


@#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 | Reply

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 | Reply | Newsworthy 3

@#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 | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Can we cut Musk? Preferably at the carotid.

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

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 ------.

#37 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-12-20 11:36 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

That's been well established at this point.

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

Ahead of an expected vote late Friday to keep the federal government running, senators voted unanimously to approve some of the funding for pediatric cancer research that was stripped out of the House version of the stopgap funding bill.
Since President-elect Donald Trump helped to torpedo the original bipartisan funding deal in the House, Democrats have decried the fact that a measure to reauthorize National Institutes of Health funding for pediatric cancer had been removed.

abcnews.go.com

Leon and lewzer lose again.

#39 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-12-21 08:40 AM | Reply

It's called winning.

#32 | Posted by visitor

I just learned something new about you. You don't have/don't like children.

#40 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-21 08:41 AM | Reply

This whole thread is a lie, LiarHurts fell for it.

Democrat Elite HATE kids with Cancer.

Because yesterday the Senate Democrats FINALLY passed the clean bill for childhood cancer research that they've blocked for NINE MONTHS.

Yes, House Republicans passed it 9 months ago. Now lets understand the evil tactic that Dems used to leverage kids with cancer to try get other things they wanted.

MARCH 2024 - House Republicans passed a clean bill approving critical funding for pediatric cancer research. They expected the Democrat controlled Senate to pass it shortly after but ... They never did. Why? Democrats were using it as leverage and lies.

The message from Democrats to the American people was clear now: Vote to pass the bloated establishment uniparty bill with all of our wasteful pork or we're going to have the media spread the lie that Republicans are voting against funding for childhood cancer.

Yes, Democrats like TruthHurts and Alexandrite were ACTUALLY using childhood cancer as leverage to get all the waste they wanted.

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#41 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-12-21 09:04 AM | Reply | Funny: 4

Hubbahubba

#42 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-12-21 09:09 AM | Reply

IAMRUNT's rapist hero steals from cancer charities.

www.usatoday.com

#43 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-12-21 09:13 AM | Reply

On Wednesday, Trump had threatened to primary "Any Republican" who voted for a funding bill without a debt limit extension; on Friday, 170 House Republicans did just that.

What a lewzer.

#44 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-12-21 09:19 AM | Reply

#41 | Posted by oneironaut

1) Um.....MAGA had the clear chance to fund children's cancer research NOW. Why didn't they? Seems like the simplest thing in the world. Most people, except you, have kids.

2) MAGA throughout the years is notorious for not funding children's health. As far as I can tell, you people are just following your pattern.

#45 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-21 09:24 AM | Reply

This whole thread is a lie

#41 | Posted by oneironaut

It is never necessary to lie in order to make MAGA look bad. Bad IS your look.

Have you complained to your Congressman about kid's cancer research not being funded? Of course you haven't, nor will you.

I'd complain to my local MAGA Congressman, except that HE DOESN'T GIVE A DAMN.

You MAGA have an interesting, loving relationship with deadly diseases.

#46 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-21 09:29 AM | Reply

Besides defunding kids with cancer, oligarch-president Trump and his benefactor Elon Musk also pushed to remove the funding for 9/11 first responders healthcare needs.

Many 9/11 first responders are now living in poverty and stricken with illness related to rescue efforts.

www.nydailynews.com

#47 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-12-21 09:38 AM | Reply

I'll type slowly so even Zed will understand. A single issue bill for child cancer research PASSED the house earlier in the year. It has been held up by the Democrats in the Senate. Your anger (fake as it is) should be directed at Schumer.

#48 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-12-21 09:46 AM | Reply

Nice try, visiturd.

www.thebulwark.com

#49 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-12-21 09:50 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#48 | Posted by visitor_

You do know that MAGA intends to get rid of the NIH.

I mean, that's what you voted for.

Don't tell me or anyone that MAGA cares about Americans getting sick.

You people are intent upon culling the herd. Meaning people you know. You're mentally ill.

#50 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-21 09:57 AM | Reply

I was just trying to keep the conversation on things that actually have happened and not your fears of what could happen.

#51 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-12-21 10:16 AM | Reply

I was just trying to keep the conversation on things that actually have happened and not your fears of what could happen.

#51 | Posted by visitor

But when they do happen you don't give a sh--.

#52 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-21 10:29 AM | Reply

I'd probably care more about getting rid of NIH if they hadn't created a pandemic that killed millions and cause a global economic meltdown.

#53 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-12-21 10:34 AM | Reply

NIH is now Chinese in TrumpWorld?

So unsurprising.

#54 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-21 10:46 AM | Reply

I'd probably care more about getting rid of NIH if they hadn't created a pandemic that killed millions and cause a global economic meltdown.

#53 | Posted by visitor

You think that the NIH manufactured COVID?

Tell me, what's the case against you your self being mentally ill?

#55 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-21 10:59 AM | Reply

Are you going to argue that we get our money's worth out of the NIH? Obama specifically ordered "no gain of function research" but the unelected bureaucrats thought they knew better and did it anyway. Then they obfuscated how it leaked from a lab. They did a terrible job with covid. And are you going to argue that the nation as a whole is more healthy now than it was before it's creation? At a minimum they need reform and that doesn't mean more money.

#56 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-12-21 11:11 AM | Reply

What does that have to do with the fact that Muskyboy targeted children with cancer? You "pro-life" asshats really love killing kids.

#57 | Posted by YAV at 2024-12-21 11:20 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Are you going to argue that we get our money's worth out of the NIH?

#56 | Posted by visitor

We do.

#58 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-21 11:20 AM | Reply

They(NIH) did a terrible job with covid.

#56 | Posted by visitor
a
They were sabotaged at every turn by Donald and MAGA.

You have to remember that. You lived through it.

#59 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-21 11:22 AM | Reply

Then they obfuscated how it leaked from a lab. They did a terrible job with covid. And are you going to argue that the nation as a whole is more healthy now than it was before it's creation? At a minimum they need reform and that doesn't mean more money.

#56 | Posted by visitor

You can't obfuscate something that's unknown.

You're being strange and paranoid. The stories you tell are MAGA mythology. You're emotionally wed to them, I know. But it's all crap.

#60 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-21 11:24 AM | Reply

You "pro-life" asshats really love killing kids.

#57 | Posted by YAV

There's a real case to be made for that.

#61 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-21 11:25 AM | Reply

No MAGA should get any benefit from NIH or CDC. Just cut them off. And no benefit from Cancer research, either. No Medicare, either. It's time to take them at their word and give them what they say they want.

#62 | Posted by YAV at 2024-12-21 11:25 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

And are you going to argue that the nation as a whole is more healthy now than it was before it's creation?

Yes. The NIH has significantly contributed to a healthier nation by funding research that has led to major advancements in disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, resulting in longer life expectancy and improved quality of life for Americans.

Since the establishment of NIH, the average lifespan in the United States has noticeably increased.

NIH-funded research has been credited with a decline in mortality rates from various illnesses.

Research funded by NIH often leads to new technologies and treatments that can boost the economy by creating jobs and reducing healthcare costs associated with illness.

They(NIH) worked hard while Trumpy did a terrible job leading us and them through the pandemic.

Trumpy leading us through a global psndemic:

So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous - whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light," the president said, turning to Dr Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response co-ordinator, "and I think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it.

"And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting," the president continued.

And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?

"So it'd be interesting to check that."

When the President of the United States says "check that" you have to check that.

I wonder how much time and money was wasted "checking that".

#63 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-21 11:57 AM | Reply

Yes, Democrats like TruthHurts and Alexandrite were ACTUALLY using childhood cancer as leverage to get all the waste they wanted.

I'm not the guy that had to give back millions to a cancer charity me and my kids stole from. (that's trump)

I'm also not a registered democrat you slimy lying piece of garbage.

#64 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-12-21 01:34 PM | Reply

Trump wanted $90M for inauguration while cutting $190M from cancer research

What a scumbag.

#65 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-12-21 02:04 PM | Reply

Maybe Netflix should do a show about the unsung heroes at the NIH.

#66 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-12-21 03:22 PM | Reply

Yes, Democrats like TruthHurts and Alexandrite were ACTUALLY using childhood cancer as leverage to get all the waste they wanted.

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#41 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

Hey ---------------
Which Republican senator blocked 3 provisions of the pediatric cancer funding?

Specifically
1 allowing cancer kids on Medicaid to cross state lines for treatment
2 allowing pediatric cancer kids to try multiple treatments concurrently
3 assisting small cancer research companies to research cancer treatments

Hint it's Rand Paul. A doctor

A doctor who takes an oath to first do no harm. Does harm

So yeah. All you magat scum parents of children with cancer. Stand up so we can point and laugh at you while you child dies of cancer. You voted to defund programs and treatments and possibly medicines that would save your child.

But no a trans somewhere was going to be treated with respect can't have that. It'll just cost the life of your child

Sucks to be you.

If I had been in your shoes I would have thought long and hard about which party wants to fund stuff like this and which party has shown a distinct lack of ----- about children

Oh well lol at you magat scum

I hope the ashes of your dead children are comforting to you

#67 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-12-21 09:43 PM | Reply

And btw anyone who has spent time in a pediatric cancer ward knows it is hell on earth.

Children who never had a chance to enjoy life are in agony as they breath their last.

Spending time in one convinced me without a doubt that there is no god

And a society that doesn't prioritize helping cancer kids is a society lost

#68 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-12-21 09:52 PM | Reply

And for this Trump voters are going to hell.

#69 | Posted by Tor at 2024-12-22 01:33 PM | Reply

just what I thought...#demsRgodamnliars.

"When the bill blew up, Democrats found a new lie to clamp their jaws on: childhood cancer.

There's a special place in hell for people like Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz, the only Senator whose last name is the past tense of the type of person he is (still, the most accurately named man in the Senate is Dick Drubin), and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts via a mythical Indian reservation controlled by the rich white lady tribe. Both of these sub-humans publicly claimed Republicans had denied funding to fight childhood cancer by rejecting that bill. Schatz tweeted, "--- cancer. Especially pediatric cancer. These people want to punish these precious little kids to pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest corporations in human history," and Warren said Republicans decoded..."let's get rid of funding for research on pediatric cancer ... .so that we can make way for tax cuts for billionaires. That is Elon Musk's notion of efficiency."

Nothing of the sort is true " the funding for pediatric cancer passed the House back in March and was in limbo in the Democrat-controlled Senate ever since. They finally, and quickly, passed it Friday night because they'd been called out for lying, but imagine being a parent with a child fighting cancer and Democrats come along and try to weaponize your misery for their political gain.

#70 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-12-23 07:55 AM | Reply

And btw anyone who has spent time in a pediatric cancer ward knows it is hell on earth.

Children who never had a chance to enjoy life are in agony as they breath their last.

Spending time in one convinced me without a doubt that there is no god

And a society that doesn't prioritize helping cancer kids is a society lost

#68 | Posted by truthhurts

f/k U !! ...A whole.

dems are lying trash....

"People started pointing out that the House had passed a stand-alone bill already and it was Democrats who killed it in the Senate, so they revived it and passed it Friday night. Stein then tweeted, "NEW-- Tonight, the senate passed via a rare unanimous consent vote, legislation to extend the Gabriella Miller Act (they passed the House version which is five years at 12.6 million a year) to fund pediatric cancer research. It will now head to Biden's desk and become law. "

#71 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-12-23 07:57 AM | Reply

#71 | Posted by shrimptacodan

MAGA historically loathes medical and health funding for children. Their rep has been decades in the making.

That you people are sinking kid's cancer research when you have the chance surprises no one.

#72 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-23 08:28 AM | Reply

"It will now head to Biden's desk and become law. "

#71 | Posted by shrimptacodan

Not to put too fine a point on it, but most Americans aren't like you yet.

#73 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-23 08:30 AM | Reply

#71 | Posted by shrimptacodan

You people get so weirded out when you're nailed on behaving according to your nature.

You want to burn everything down. You've always seen children's health care as low-hanging fruit.

Besides, cancer research is conducted by SCIENTISTS, the existence of whom----What?----Makes you remember that you slept through high school?

#74 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-23 08:36 AM | Reply

it's why we have inflation and areq on the brink of collapse.

#21 | Posted by visitor_

We always have inflation at about the rate we have right now.

And we're "on the brink of collapse" because idiots like you are just finding out how the world works and are, for some reason, getting all s&^%%y about it and forcing us towards a cliff instead of fixing it.

#75 | Posted by jpw at 2024-12-23 09:16 AM | Reply

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.

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.

www.nytimes.com

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."

www.newsweek.com

#76 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-12-23 09:46 AM | Reply

"f/k U !! ...A whole.
dems are lying trash...."

It sure looks like not all the funding for pediatric cancer research was restored:

Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social

Big update! There were 5 separate bills having to do with pediatric cancer in the original CR. All got stripped out. BUT--the provision reauthorizing NIH pediatric cancer research already passed the house earlier this year. So Senate just put it into their bill and it no will get signed!

#77 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-12-23 09:51 AM | Reply

Found this, which I haven't verified but sounds plausible:

The original version included $190M and what passed includes $63M in funding. So, the kids lost $127M (or about 2/3 of the funding).

#78 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-12-23 10:03 AM | Reply

The following were also removed

1 allowing cancer kids on Medicaid to cross state lines for treatment
2 allowing pediatric cancer kids to try multiple treatments concurrently
3 assisting small cancer research companies to research cancer treatments

#79 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-12-23 10:35 AM | Reply

Thanks for the info, TH.

#80 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-12-23 11:36 AM | Reply

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