Washington, Sept 13: US President Joe Biden has announced an ambitious plan to reduce cancer deaths in the United States, which is the second most cause of death in the country after heart disease. Despite the progress of lives extended, and lives saved, cancer is still the number two cause of death in America, second only to heart disease. For too many cancer patients and their families, instead of hope, there’s bewilderment, the feeling of being on your own, Biden […]
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MR. FRIEDLANDER: Good morning, everyone. This is Rob from the OMB communications team. Thanks so much for joining us. This will be an on-background conference call about the President’s discretionary funding request for fiscal year 2022.
For your awareness but not for reporting purposes, today we’ll be joined by [administration officials].
We’ll begin with some brief comments from [administration official], and then we’ll open it up for a few questions. As a reminder, today’s call will be conducted on background, attributable to “administration officials,” and embargoed until 11:00 a.m. Eastern time today.