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Just because he bought himself a Presidency, the guy now thinks that earns him last-minute Veto power over both Chambers of Congress. With a line-item sharpie pen to boot.
Meet Leon — the Grinch who just squelched Kid's Cancer Research.
As just one of the prices the people need to pay — just to keep their Government open at XMAS.
Republicans Cut Child Cancer Research From Funding Bill After Musk’s Meddling
ca.news.yahoo.com— Dec 19, 2024
[...] 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 bipartisan “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.
“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.”
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That’s the only factoid you need to know about the Musk Government Shutdown, when you see your friends and family for the holidays.
That and the fact, that Musk is also demanding that the Debt Ceiling Law be ended, before he will give his blessing to the “traditional” stopgap Government funding resolution.
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Who elected this jerk to single-handedly drive our Government into the ground— oh wait, never-mind.
It was all those easily riled people so damned worried about the ‘price of eggs.’
How’s that cheaper eggnog working out for you now, navel-gazers !?
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