FILE - In this July 21, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama signs executive orders to protect LGBT employees from federal workplace discrimination in the East Room of the White House. The U.S. has deployed its diplomats and tens of millions of dollars to try to block anti-gay laws, punish countries that enacted them, and tie U.S. assistance to respect for LGBT rights, animated in part by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s declaration that “gay rights are human rights.” (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
President Obama will sign the CURES Act today and White House spokesman Josh Earnest says it will likely be his last public bill signing ceremony. The bipartisan measure provides more than six-billion dollars for medical research of deadly diseases. It also boosts federal funding for mental health research and for the fight against the opioid epidemic. Vice President Joe Biden will be at the ceremony and he is very happy about additional dollars for his “cancer moonshot” initiative. Biden’s son Beau died after a long battle against brain cancer last year.