re: Has Biden cured cancer yet?

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It's really hard when Republicans defund the initiative. Go look at the budget.

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Yes, Republicans are why Biden has not yet cured cancer. That's it.

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I don’t believe that is what the poster is trying to say.

I think he is referring to the fact that there was a bi-partisan effort to fight cancer passed in 2016. The money was cut from the budget this year by Republicans.

Obviously it’s hyperbole to say that “Joe Biden’s going to cure cancer”. But if you’re going to use that logic to ridicule him, then it’s fair game to speak in equal terms as say “the Republicans are trying to stop him”.

In reality though, shame on both sides for playing political games with this. My mother is a cancer survivor and my father has been recently diagnosed. My grandfather died of cancer before I was born.

I’m sure that everyone else here has been affected by cancer in someway.

So whether you believe FJB or FDT or F both of them, we should all agree frick CANCER

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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 that’s no longer a bipartisan priority. 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.

The new budget is tight across the board, reflecting Republicans’ control of the House, deficit concerns and, not least, their desire to deny Biden a win months before the election. Congress’ decision has left Biden scrambling to fill the gap. “Actions have consequences. Arbitrarily calling for spending cuts means the money will come from somewhere,” Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), who with former Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) spearheaded the Cures law in 2016, told POLITICO in an email. “It is a shame we cannot find more funding for cancer research and that this work will be impacted by partisan efforts to slash spending.”

Republicans see the cuts differently. “When you’re running a $1.6 trillion deficit, spending cuts aren’t the problem,” Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), the new chair of the House Appropriations Committee, told POLITICO.

“We’ve been very generous,” he added, referencing the hundreds of millions in funding since the Cures law passed. The moonshot is important, Cole said, but the magnitude of the deficit requires tough choices and compromise on entitlement costs that Democrats aren’t willing to make. Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas), an OB/GYN who’s co-chair of the GOP Doctors Caucus, argues that the next big health care bill needs to focus on how to pay for medical innovation and make it affordable.

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