Republicans Cut Child Cancer Research From Funding Bill After Musk’s Meddling

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/gop-cuts-child-cancer-research-funding-bill-musk-1235212295/

44 comments

  1. “we’re pro life as long as I don’t have to pay for it”

  2. They do things like this but then expect us to breed like cattle.

  3. Don’t worry folks Our Puppet Master Musk has a plan to help all those children with cancer. It’s called letting them die so he can line his pocket even more.

  4. ***From Rolling Stone’s Nikki McCann Ramirez and Ryan Bort:***

    Less than 48 hours before defaulting and triggering a shutdown, Congress is still scrambling to pass a stopgap funding resolution that will keep the U.S. government funded and functional through the next few months. After several starts and stops, Republicans were reduced to infighting on Wednesday after Elon Musk — Trump’s “first buddy” and government “efficiency” adviser — rejected a proposed funding deal and called for a legislative freeze and government shutdown until Trump’s inauguration in late January.

    As a result, the new stripped-down funding bill proposed on Thursday is literally throwing out the baby with the bathwater: It will exclude $190 million for the “Give Kids a Chance” program for child cancer research. Sam Stein of The Bulwark points out that the new bill also excludes funding for research on premature labor, sickle cell disease treatment, early detection of breast and cervical cancer, the Rural Broadband Protection Act, an anti-deepfake porn bill, and more.

    Read more: [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/gop-cuts-child-cancer-research-funding-bill-musk-1235212295/](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/gop-cuts-child-cancer-research-funding-bill-musk-1235212295/)

  8. Of course, why waste money? RFK Jr will cure every disease for free!

  10. Huh. The “Will-No-One-think-of-the-Children!?” party is spitting on kids with cancer? How completely expected.

    Still a republican? This is you.

  11. At this point Americans should crawl back into their mother’s womb they’ll be given more rights and protection there.

  12. Musk: They should try natural remedies like toads foot or long exposure to the sun

  16. Ok sure, but tax cuts for the rich will trickle down.. and.. cure childhood cancer… and… stuff. *Won’t someone think of the poor billionaires?*

  17. Republicans want more childhood cancer and more kids to die from cancer.

  20. President Musk is pro child cancer! Spread it around.

  22. $190 million saved between 160+ million taxpayers, and all they have to do is let kids with cancer die, the brain trust really has arrived.

  27. I truly believe that in my lifetime these monsters are going to propose a bill to use children’s blood as lubricant for machinery.

  28. Christians in the 21st Century: “Only the strongest survive.”

  29. Father of a childhood warrior. I always told people I would never wish that upon my worst enemy, Elon is the exception

  30. They’re just getting started, folks.

    They want all the money. All of it.

  31. Oh.. so they’re EVIL evil. Ok. I think it’s about time we fuckin riot!!

  33. Fucking evil fucks. do you want to make more Luigi’s? Cause this is how you do it.

  34. Of course they did.

    Those kids need to fight cancer off themselves. They don’t need handouts or research. We need that money for more military stuff, or pay raises.

  36. The brainless thing about this is that there actually is a ton of bloat in the budget.

    Problem is most of that bloat is military, healthcare, and shitty government contracts that waste tons of money as a form of reward to useful supporters.

    But sure, let more kids die of cancer while also forcing people to use your shitty satellite internet that you’ve repeatedly used for your demented political goals.

  37. Anti-abortion is not pro-life. It is just hatred of women.

  39. I am praying maga gets every single consequence of their vote. Fucking suffer, y’all did this

  40. Cancer in children is why I don’t believe in god.

    Cancer in children is NOW why I don’t believe in republicans.

  41. > “Fuck cancer. Especially pediatric cancer,” Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) wrote on X. “These people want to punish these previous little kids to pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest corporations in human history.”

    I’m glad to hear some aren’t holding back. Republicans truly are disgusting.

  42. This is actually some super villain shit. I don’t understand how someone could be ok taking millions of dollars away from life saving programs, especially for children.

    Gross.

  43. They are pro birth that’s it. They aren’t pro life. They only care that the next generation of servants are born but once that cord is cut nothing else matters.

  44. Musk: “we need to have more kids”

    Also Musk: *kills more children that are already alive*

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