The spending bill that Musk murdered contained a veritable conservative wishlist, including money to bolster semiconductor supply chains, protections for rural consumers ripped off by the internet service providers, and restrictions on American investment in China.
Eliminating those provisions - as well as the whole 'keeping the government open' thing - is a huge deal. But a bit involving pediatric cancer research is a particularly bad look.
In its original form, the budget proposal would have extended funding for the National Institutes of Health's Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Program, which passed during a similarly gridlocked Congressional session in 2014.
By that night, Republicans had shot down the budget proposal - and with it any hope that Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's Department of Government Efficiency (abbreviated, annoyingly, as DOGE) would be a mere vanity project for the billionaire.
Collection
[
|
...
]