President Joe Biden marked the first anniversary of a law that is delivering the largest expansion of veterans benefits in decades on Thursday by showcasing the bipartisan PACT Act in the company of Utah’s Republican Gov. Spencer Cox.
The Democratic president and the GOP governor visited the George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center to promote a law that is intended to improve health care and disability compensation for exposure to toxic substances, such as burn pits that were used to dispose of trash on military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.
More than 348,000 veterans have had their claims approved in the last year, and about 111,000 who are believed to have toxic exposure have enrolled in health care.
The issue of veterans' care is also personal for Biden. He's long believed that his eldest son's fatal brain cancer was caused by exposure to burn pits while he served overseas in the Delaware National Guard.
"It's personal for my family, but it's also personal for so many of you," he told the audience in Salt Lake City.
The president is winding up a three-state western swing in which he has been combining events focused on achievements from his first term with campaign fundraisers aimed at helping him win a second. Both Biden and Cox have stressed the need to find common ground by reaching across party lines.
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