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Originally Posted by GridIron26
It might be a good reason for you, but it is not for me. With an exception for additional funds for community health centers, there is no question that we need to provide funds for community health centers. However, Bernie could propose a standalone bill to fund community health centers without trying to tie it to this bill. I even think this approach is better for Bernie cuz he could have used this to show people that Republicans do not support community health centers if they chose to not support it. Instead, people are now looking at Bernie as a bad guy for not supporting the child cancer research.
As for the Elon Musk part, like I explained in my first post, I do not agree with the tit for tat approach, especially when it holds people hostage.
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You know well enough a "stand alone bill" would never pass. Do you know if there is anything else attached to this bill? A little history sheds some light and shoots down sdskinsfan2001/chico's ignorance.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/san...grinch-selfish
The Vermont independent explained that he had no problem with the legislation, which would have incentivized the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and drug companies to encourage more relevant pediatric studies and invest in rare pediatric disease treatments, but he wanted to tack on an amendment to fund community health centers throughout the country.
"This is not a radical amendment," Sanders said. "I'm not coming here saying, ‘Let's do something we've not talked about.’ I'm not talking about passing Medicare for all here.
I am talking about doing what the Republicans and Democrats agreed to a year ago but was torpedoed by some tweets from Elon Musk."
Lawmakers already had a version of the bill teed up for passage last year, attached to the colossal, year-end temporary funding extension produced by the House.
But that package was ultimately blown apart by tech billionaire Elon Musk, who at the time was coming to Washington, D.C., to serve as President Donald Trump’s government waste attack dog at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
What eventually passed in late 2024 was a slimmed-down, three-month extension to government funding without the pediatric cancer research bill, and several other policy and funding riders eyed by both sides of the aisle.