Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Beating cancer used to be bipartisan. What happened? - POLITICO

Lawmakers backed the initiative during the final days of Barack Obama's 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 doesn't reup Cures moonshot money that dried up at the end of last year. Lawmakers rejected Biden's request to fund Cures this year and also cut off his moonshot's most direct funding stream...

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