“Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” ― Joe Biden

Biden’s moonshot (2 minutes):

While the country continue to be assaulted with the babbling of a MAGA idiot running for president, MAGAs in congress do their damndest to set the country back on many fronts. One of those fronts was to quash money for a program near and dear to the President’s heart – the cancer moonshot.

Remember a few short years ago when then Vice President Biden headed up a task force to put cancer in the center of the target. The concept was that we as a nation could cut cancer deaths in half if we made it a priority. VP Biden had lost a member of his family to cancer – his son, Beau. Like most Americans the dreaded “C” word had touched his family.

Just as his most famous quote tells us, he put money where his mouth was. But it wasn’t only his money, it was America’s money backing up a fight with one of America’s greatest enemies. An enemy that has crept into nearly every American family, including my own. 

When money was appropriated for the “Cancer moonshot” then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called it “the most significant legislation passed by this Congress.” Oh how times change as MAGA party members refuse to give President Biden a “win” in an election year.   

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.”

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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.

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.”

When we talk about how today’s MAGA party values is tax cuts for the rich and let the common people suffer. Voting in favor of cancer and shooting puppies is what they are today.

Cancer moonshot? Forget it.

Save and make Social Security more solid? Nope – it is time to cut it.

Make Medicare more solid and cover more? Nope destroy it using the privatized Medicare {dis}Advantage.

The list goes on and on from education to decent jobs with good wages. Democrats build the work force and infrastructure for a strong economy that works for the greater number of Americans. MAGA’s only goal these days is to play politics with policy. Allowing Americans to die of cancer is part of their policy plans. Giving the wealthy tax cuts is also part of that plan.

This election year be sure to vote the down ballot candidates whose values align with yours. For most Democrats.