Biden’s cancer charity raised millions but spent nothing on medical research, according to tax returns.

A cancer charity established by presumed President-elect Joe Biden has not allocated a single dollar to medical research, according to media reports, with most of the group’s money going to generous salaries.

Federal tax returns reveal that the Biden Cancer Initiative, founded in 2017 by former vice president Biden and his wife Jill, did not distribute grants in its first two years of operation, the New York Post reported. The charity, created after Biden’s eldest son, Beau, died of brain cancer in 2015, says its mission is to

The Daily Mail confirmed the curious budget decisions after also reviewing the organization’s tax documents.

According to the Post, Biden’s charity raised $4,809,619 in contributions in fiscal years 2017 and 2018, spending $30,703,301 on salaries in those two years. Gregory Simon, a former Pfizer executive and health lobbyist who was hired to serve as the organization’s president, earned $429,850 in fiscal 2018, nearly doubling his salary from the previous year. Like Biden, Simon was a member of the Obama administration, leading the White House Cancer Task Force.

Travel expenses also soared between 2017 and 2018, although the organization never made a financial contribution to cancer research. The group had previously stated that its main goal was to make cancer treatment more affordable and accessible, as opposed to raising funds to find a cure.

After only two years, the charity’s operations began to take off when Biden and his wife retired for Joe Biden’s presidential race.

The Biden Cancer Initiative ceased operations in July 2019 after Joe Biden withdrew to focus on his presidential bid. Although technically still active, it went into extended standby, with Simon acknowledging in a 2019 interview that, without Biden’s involvement, he had become

The NY Post story caught the attention of U.S. President Donald Trump, who retweeted it without comment.

Trump previously described the Biden family as one and said that the former vice president’s alleged involvement in shady deals with foreign companies shows that Biden is a politician. The Post published a series of stories suggesting that Biden may have been linked to a questionable business deal with a Chinese company, based on e-mails and messages allegedly extracted from a hard drive that belonged to his son Hunter. Hunter’s former business partner later confirmed that the e-mails were genuine and that the former vice president was intimately involved in the scheme. Biden dismissed the Post’s report as an attempt by his son.

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