As I noted yesterday, one of the more appalling casualties of the government shutdown has been funding for the National Institutes for Health, which has had to start turning away the roughly 200 patients, including children with cancer, who come to it each week for treatment in clinical trials. So as part of its strategy of pushing bills that would selectively fund discrete, visible, and popular pieces of the government, such as the District of Columbia and the National Park Service, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has also proposed restoring the NIH budget. "Nothing is stuck. There's been a sensible plan to reopen the government right in front of House Republicans all along." It's bold of Cantor to accuse anybody of "Playing political games." We're talking about a shutdown that's essentially been triggered by 30 to 40 hardcore conservatives in the House who have decided that, since they couldn't unseat the president in an actual election, they're entitled to take the entire government hostage in an attempt to undermine the Affordable Care Act.
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