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The moonshot aimed to transform cancer research, putting more than a billion dollars into getting 10 years of progress squeezed into five. The project's entrance onto the national stage started months before Obama's final SOTU with an emotional Rose Garden speech by Vice President Joe Biden, whose son Beau had recently died of brain cancer. Biden used that moment to say he wasn't going to run for president - but that if he had, he would have wanted to be the president who cured cancer. When the project formally launched it quickly garnered support from Republican heavyweights including then-Sens. Orrin Hatch and John McCain — who later

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The moonshot aimed to transform cancer research, putting more than a billion dollars into getting 10 years of progress squeezed into five. The project's entrance onto the national stage started months before Obama's final SOTU with an emotional Rose Garden speech by Vice President Joe Biden, whose son Beau had recently died of brain cancer. Biden used that moment to say he wasn't going to run for president - but that if he had, he would have wanted to be the president who cured cancer. When the project formally launched it quickly garnered support from Republican heavyweights including then-Sens. Orrin Hatch and John McCain — who later
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Brian C. Keegan (bkeegan@hci.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 01:31:22 JST Brian C. Keegan
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One of the final and most emotional moments of Obama’s tenure involved the announcement of a Cancer Moonshot.
A massive influx of funding to accelerate cancer research.
Set against the backdrop of Biden skipping the 2016 race because Beau had just died of brain cancer.
How much money are we talking? $1.8 billion per year for seven years.
$44 billion of Elonbucks could have accelerated cancer research forever.
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