Whatever you need, I’ll give you the money. He was a favorite to win the 2016 Delaware gubernatorial election.īiden said Obama was the only person he kept updated on his son’s condition outside of the family, because he wanted the president to know what state he was in. The 46-year-old father of two had served two terms as Delaware’s attorney general and a year-long tour in Iraq with the Delaware national guard. Officials said Beau Biden was given “a clean bill of health” in November 2013, but his brain cancer returned in spring 2015. Obama’s income has plummeted since he took office in 2009, when he reported an income of $5.5m, primarily from book sales and winning the Nobel Peace prize. Barack and Michelle Obama reported a gross income of $477,383 that year, the most recent for which records are available. Joe and Jill Biden reported an adjusted gross income of $388,844 on their 2014 tax return.
Promise me you won’t sell the house,’” Biden said. “He got up and he said, ‘Don’t sell that house. He suffered from a mild stroke in 2010 and was found to have brain cancer in August 2013, while serving his second term as attorney general.īiden said he and his wife Jill, a community college professor, thought about selling their house to help support Beau’s family if he resigned because there was “nothing for him to fall back on, no salary”. Obama offered to help Biden, who earns $230,000 annually, during one of their weekly lunches, the vice-president said in an interview with CNN published on Tuesday.īeau Biden considered resigning from his post as Delaware attorney general because of medical concerns. Vice-President Joe Biden said he considered selling his home to help support his dying son’s family, prompting President Barack Obama to offer him financial support.
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