The Biden Cancer Initiative, a non-profit organization started by former Vice Pr...
Former U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden pauses while speaking about the Biden Cancer Initiative at the South by Southwest Music Film Interactive Festival 2017 in Austin, Texas, U.S., March 12, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
- The Biden Cancer Initiative, a non-profit organization started by former Vice President Joe Biden to support cancer prevention and research, said on Monday it suspended operations last week, two and a half months after Biden and his wife resigned from the group to focus on his presidential campaign.
Biden, whose son Beau died from brain cancer in 2015, launched the group in 2017. He has said that he would like to president who presided over the end of cancer as we know it. “We are suspending activities given our unique circumstances We remain personally committed to the cause, but at this time will have to pause efforts,” Greg Simon, president of the Biden Cancer Initiative, said in a statement.Biden, the front-runner in the Democratic presidential race, unveiled a healthcare plan on Monday. The plan is estimated to cost $750 billion and will paid for partly by higher tax rates for the wealthy and doubled tax rates on capital gains.
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