Conservatives and allies of President-elect Trump are dismantling claims by Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats that Republicans blocked funding for childhood cancer research in a spending bill that has stalled within the Democratic Party. It points to a stand-alone bill. He controlled the Senate for months.
Congress passed a pared-back spending bill early Saturday morning as the government leans toward an extended shutdown. The bill’s passage comes after tech billionaire Elon Musk and other Trump allies called the 1,500-page bill “exorbitant” and “excessive spending, special interests, and pork belly” early last week. This comes after he called for the MP’s reinstatement, calling it “full of politics.” To the negotiating table.
The Senate introduced the third version of its short-term funding bill Saturday morning after negotiations that pared it down without including measures such as raising salaries for lawmakers.
As negotiations stalled, Warren and other Democrats sought to blame Republicans for allegedly blocking funding for childhood cancer research in the bill.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats sought to blame Republican lawmakers for allegedly blocking funding for childhood cancer research. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“We’re actually getting our first taste of what it means to have this DOGE right now,” Warren said on CNN as the government prepared for a government shutdown Friday night. “It’s the color that made it.”
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DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, is an incoming presidential advisory committee led by Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy that will cut excessive government spending and reduce the size of government under the second Trump administration.
SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk speaks at the America PAC Town Hall on October 26, 2024 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
“Here it is, and what it means. And that’s where Elon Musk’s fingerprints are all over this issue, because what’s written in this bill, for example, is everything. Pediatrics. Eliminate funding for cancer research. Eliminate funding for research on early detection of cervical cancer and breast cancer. Eliminate funding for research on children with Down syndrome and sickle cell anemia. Sho. “Tax cuts for billionaires, that’s Elon Musk’s concept of efficiency,” she continued.
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Meanwhile, the Democratic Party’s war room issued a press release declaring: “Trump and his MAGA minions in Congress decided to threaten a government shutdown for his political gain, and now they’re stooping to the point of cutting childhood cancer research.”
“Liar Liz Warren, aka Pocahontas,” Musk shot back in response to Warren’s comments, referring to President Trump’s frequent mockery of Warren.
The Capitol in Washington, March 19, 2024 (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Other conservatives and Trump supporters pointed to a standalone bill passed by the Republican-led House in March and stalled for months in the Democratic-led Senate, where Republicans are pushing back on childhood cancer research. He denounced the statement that funding had been blocked.
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“Elizabeth Warren repeats the lie that Elon Musk and Republicans blocked funding for childhood cancer research. A standalone childhood cancer research funding bill passed the Republican-controlled House in March. has been put on hold in the Democratic-controlled Senate,” a TikTok posted in response to a CNN interview with popular conservative X account Libs Warren.
“Democrats blocked funding for childhood cancer research.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks with staff before the start of a Senate Banking Committee hearing at the Capitol on April 27, 2023 (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
On March 5, the House of Representatives passed a standalone bill allocating millions of dollars annually to pediatric research through 2028 by a vote of 384-4. The bill was introduced in the Senate on March 6, but Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the D.N.Y. did not take action on the bill, and months later, Democrats This prompted accusations from conservatives that he had used research funds as a “bargaining chip.”
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“Democrats used children with cancer to defend all the bastards the Democrats wanted in their bill, then used children as political shields to accuse Republicans of shutting down games.” This money is being used as a political shield. If it’s so important, it could be passed on its own.”You know, instead of cramming hundreds of useless proposals into the same bill to fund childhood cancer research, we could pass it on its own.” As in, as a separate bill that no one really understands. An editorial published in the Washington Examiner outlined that.
The Senate passed the bill on a unanimous vote Friday night, following accusations targeting Republicans for allegedly blocking funding for research, according to a review of the bill.
The bill would extend $12.6 million in annual funding for cancer research through 2031.
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Fox News Digital reached out to Warren’s office for additional comment Sunday morning, but did not immediately receive a response.
