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Conservatives and allies of President-elect Trump is dismantling a narrative put forth by Democratic lawmakers such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren that Republicans blocked funding for childhood cancer research in the spending bill, pointing to a standalone bill that had languished in Senate controlled by Democrats for months. .
Congress passed a slimmed-down spending bill early Saturday morning as the government headed toward an extended shutdown. The bill’s passage came after tech billionaire Elon Musk and other Trump allies blasted a more than 1,500-page law earlier last week as “outrageous” and “full of overspending, freebies ‘special interest and pork barrel politics’, demanding lawmakers return. at the negotiation table.
The Senate advanced a third version of a short-term funding bill Saturday morning, after negotiations that watered down the legislation to not include measures such as giving lawmakers a raise.
As the negotiations developed, Warren and other Democrats tried to criticize Republicans for allegedly blocking funding for childhood cancer research in the bill.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats sought to criticize Republicans for allegedly blocking funding for childhood cancer research. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“We’re actually getting our first taste, this is live and in living color, of what it means to have this DOGE,” Warren told CNN as the government prepared to shut down Friday evening.
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DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, is an upcoming presidential advisory committee which will be led by Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to reduce excessive government spending and reduce the size of government under the second Trump administration.
Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla, speaks during an America PAC town hall on October 26, 2024 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
“Right here, and what that’s going to mean. And that’s where Elon Musk’s fingerprints are all over this. Because, like, what this bill says is, let’s get rid of it. funding for pediatric cancer research. Get rid of funding for research into early detection of cervical and breast cancer. Get rid of funding for research on children with Down syndrome and sickle cell disease. Get rid of these things so we can make room for the tax cuts for the billionaires, that’s Elon Musk’s notion of efficiency,” he continued.
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While the War room of the Democratic Party issued a press release declaring, “Trump and his MAGA underlings in Congress have decided to threaten a government shutdown for their own political gain, and now they’ve stooped as low as cutting childhood cancer research.”
“Lyin’ Liz Warren aka Pocahontas,” Musk replied in response to Warren’s comments. referring to the common jibe against Trump Warren.
The Washington Capitol, March 19, 2024 (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Other conservatives and Trump allies criticized the narrative that the GOP blocked funding for childhood cancer research, pointing to a stand-alone bill that passed the Republican-led House in March and had stalled for months in the Senate led by Democrats.
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“Elizabeth Warren repeats the lie that @elonmusk and the Republicans blocked funding for childhood cancer research. A separate bill to fund childhood cancer research passed the Republican-controlled House in March and was detained in the Democrat-controlled Senate,” the popular conservative account X Libs. of TikTok posted in response to Warren’s CNN interview.
“Democrats block funding for childhood cancer research”.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks with a staff member before the start of a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, April 27, 2023. (Drew Anger/Getty Images)
The House passed a stand-alone bill on March 5, by a vote of 384-4, allocating millions of dollars annually to pediatric research through 2028. The bill was delivered to the Senate on March 6, But Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., had taken no action on the legislation, drawing condemnation from conservatives months after Democrats used research funding as “negotiation”. chip”.
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“Democrats are using kids with cancer as political shields in the shutdown game to blame Republicans after using them as political shields to help defend all the disparity that Democrats wanted to include in the bill. If this funding is so important, it can be passed on its own as a stand-alone bill, which is how government is supposed to function, instead of cramming hundreds of useless proposals into the same bill. Funding pediatric cancer research in a 1,500-page mess that no one reads so you can attack anyone who doesn’t support useless stuff by claiming they hate kids with cancer,” explained an op-ed published in the Washington Examiner.
A review of the legislation shows that as of Friday evening, the Senate passed the law by a voice vote, following condemnation directed at the GOP for allegedly blocking research funding.
The legislation extends $12.6 billion annually in 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.
