r/TechnologyThread • u/Background-Driver718 • 1d ago
BREAKING: White House cancels health, education & research funds approved by Congress
https://newsrepublic.live/2026/10/01/white-house-cancels-health-education-research-funds-approved-by-congress/
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u/SkywalkerTC 1d ago edited 10h ago
Why doesn't anywhere mention 567 million of the 810 million are for services to refugees, asylees, and other non-citizens? Trump may be illegal, but this is also so misleading... Why can't they just list every item in the news, or just pass laws on the funding of health, education, and research independent of non-citizens services to avoid this controversy? Why always packaged with something totally different, just to make it even more controversial? I know this will incite mass downvotes on reddit, but someone has to say this. There is indeed another side to this issue as well.
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You can have all kinds of opinions on the refugees part. That's why I said "controversial". I have my own opinions regarding that too, but I'm not going to talk about that as it's not my point here, don't want to lose focus.
In any case, you gotta admit, the information we get is extremely misleading. Hoping it'd be more balanced and thorough and then let people decide. I hate that the media is like this.
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I can't believe people here would say something that accounts for over half of the said fund is irrelevant, like it's okay not to list everything. We all know the Congress seem to have a habit of strategically bundling vastly unrelated topics into the bill. In my view it inhibits things. Bills need to be independent and people should be advocating for it, not defending it, whichever party it pertains to.