Posted on 02/03/2026 6:27:52 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Lawmakers rejected huge health cuts President Donald Trump requested. Kennedy’s diverting the funds to pet projects and red states.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has begun rerouting millions in discretionary funds to studies on autism and cut support for research on transgender people and studies on race and gender disparities. | Evan Vucci/AP
Democrats counted it as a win Tuesday when President Donald Trump signed a law providing $20 billion more for the agency that is the world’s largest health research funder than Trump requested.
Democrats’ victory could prove pyrrhic. Trump’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and his National Institutes of Health director, Jay Bhattacharya, have promised to spend the money, but not necessarily on projects Democrats will like.
They have already begun rerouting millions in discretionary funds to studies on autism, which Kennedy believes is caused by vaccines. They’ve cut support for studies of health disparities related to race or gender, and research on transgender people. They’ve withheld funds to pressure universities to change policies on campus protests, faculty hiring and admissions. And now they plan on shifting more money to red states that used to go to blue.
“I have no illusion that this bill alone will stop Secretary Kennedy’s nonstop, misinformed attacks on our health system,” Sen. Patty Murray of Oregon, the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, told POLITICO.
For now, she’s happy with the result anyway.
“Protecting these key federal investments is a big deal that will save lives,” she said. “It means cancer research isn’t getting defunded — and neither are key programs to tackle the opioid crisis or help women get the contraception and basic preventive care they need.”
The law retains funding for all 27 institutes and centers at the National Institutes of Health — the Trump budget called for...
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The Democrat Party is in open alliance with the Euro-globalists — against the USA.
So spending the money on things that are actually health related?
The fiend.
“Sen. Patty Murray of Oregon”
Murray is from WA!
Does Political proof read?
I know the DailyMail doesn’t.
I noticed that in recent years, that, likely to divert attention from the negative effects of fornication, esp. sodomy, the CDC tends to focus more on race vs. behavior, and thus blame for STD's is partly placed upon lack of care, at taxpayer expense, in order to excuse a behavior that is promoted, defended, and opposition attacked, as they do the Bible, which is mainly why I exposed "Negative effects of homosexual relations (also heterosexual fornication) - Physical, Psychological, Financial and Spiritual" (which title Google cannot find except on FR)
These jugheads need to pay for their own self-inflicted sexual disorientation problems. They are not the taxpayer's problem. It's their body. They've always told us to stay out of it. Well, that should mean our money too.
I hope he starts a cattle ranch with the extra money. One of the first cows could be called “AOC”, and another one could be called “Nancy”. They could be housed in the special stable, named “If Only Those Were Brains” House.
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