Moonshot Joe. (credit: C-SPAN)
In his final State of the Union address, President Obama announced a “new national effort” to put an end to cancer once and for all—and that effort will be led by Vice President Joe Biden, who last year tragically lost his son Beau to brain cancer at the age of 46.
“It’s personal for me,” Biden wrote in a statement released Tuesday night in conjunction with the President’s address. “But it’s also personal for nearly every American, and millions of people around the world. We all know someone who has had cancer, or is fighting to beat it.”
While the President’s brief remarks about the cancer-busting initiative were vague, Biden revealed in his statement that he has been meeting with researchers, philanthropists, and physicians for months to lay the groundwork for the plan. Last year, Biden personally lobbied for additional federal funding for cancer research. In December, the federal spending bill passed included a $264 million boost to the National Cancer Institute’s budget, which the Vice President praised.
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