Hadn’t heard this. Sounds like spin on what happened during budget. Bold emphasis mine.

https://pcrf-kids.org/2024/12/31/a-heartbreaking-outcome-funding-for-childhood-cancer-research-cut-from-u-s-spending-bill/

Originally, the spending package included the following:

-the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act 2.0., which would have extended the National Institutes of Health’s Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Program,

-the Accelerating Kids to Research Act, which would have made it easier for children from low-income families on Medicaid to receive specialized cancer treatment across state lines

-the Creating Hope Reauthorization Act, which would have extended a program incentivizing pediatric drug development that has already resulted in the development of 65 new medications

-the Give Kids a Chance Act, which would have allowed children with relapsed cancers to undergo treatments combining cancer drugs with other therapies

Despite members of Congress initially agreeing to include the above-described provisions, all mentions of pediatric cancer funding were removed from the final version of the spending package. Although the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act 2.0 was ultimately revised and passed as its own standalone bill, the other three provisions remain in limbo.