The alternative was raising taxes on the rich, so yeah, don't get cancer.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/29/congress-is-killing-bidens-cancer-moonshot-00154718
President Joe Biden is scrambling to fund his cancer moonshot and its ambitious goal of cutting the death rate by half an aim close to his heart thats no longer a bipartisan priority.
Lawmakers backed the initiative during the final days of Barack Obamas presidency, passing the 21st Century Cures Act, and allotting $1.8 billion to the cause, nearly unanimously. Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called it the most significant legislation passed by this Congress.
But times have changed. The spending package Congress passed in March doesnt reup Cures moonshot money that dried up at the end of last year. Lawmakers rejected Bidens request to fund Cures this year and also cut off his moonshots most direct funding stream.
When youre running a $1.6 trillion deficit, spending cuts arent the problem, Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), the new chair of the House Appropriations Committee, told POLITICO.