By now, the basic elements of last week’s drama on Capitol Hill are widely known. House Speaker Mike Johnson reached a bipartisan agreement to prevent a government shutdown; Elon Musk and a variety of Republican officials balked; GOP officials started stripping measures from the legislation; and eventually a package worked its way to the White House before the deadline.
Of particular interest, however, were the federal investments in cancer research that Republicans removed from the agreement. Because we discussed this last week, it’s important to emphasize that one of the measures that was eliminated ended up becoming law anyway.
Source: Some, but not all, funding for cancer research survived federal spending deal chaos
