Democrats are using children with cancer as political human shields to protect themselves from blame over a potential government shutdown, in case you are wondering how the party is faring one month after its big election losses.
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), along with Democratic pundits Jon Favreau and Sam Stein, are attacking Republicans for stripping $190 million in pediatric cancer research funding from the government funding bill. This came after Republicans stripped all the excess provisions from the funding bill to ensure that the government remained open, which Democrats then voted against to try and ensure that Republicans get blamed for a government shutdown.
Democrats are using children with cancer as political shields in the shutdown game to blame Republicans after using them as political shields to help defend all the slop Democrats wanted included in the bill. If this funding is so important, it can be passed on its own as a stand-alone bill. You know, like how the government is supposed to work, instead of cramming hundreds of useless proposals into the same bill as pediatric cancer research funding in a 1,500-page mess that no one actually reads so that you can attack anyone who doesn’t support the useless stuff by claiming they hate children with cancer.
Here is the kicker: House Republicans already passed this exact research funding as a stand-alone bill. You know, like how the government is supposed to work. The Republican-led House passed this funding on March 5 of this year by a vote of 384-4. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has refused to act on it, meaning that Senate Democrats like Schatz are the ones depriving children with cancer of pediatric cancer research funding.
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Either Democrats like Schatz are outright lying about this cancer funding dispute or they simply don’t pay enough attention to the jobs they are expected to do. Whether you believe the best-case scenario of incompetence or the worst-case scenario of malice, it is congressional Democrats and their media allies who are using children with cancer as political footballs, throwing them around to try and score points on Republicans who approved pediatric cancer funding nine months ago while Schumer shoved them into a back closet.
Congressional Democrats have blocked pediatric cancer funding research and are now using children with cancer as political props to defend all the garbage they wanted included in the original funding bill. Republicans should say that clearly and often and make Schumer and Schatz justify why they have blocked the funding that they are conveniently now using as a political weapon.