Meghan McCain Says She's 'Heartbroken' Over Massive Cuts To Brain Cancer Research

"My fellow republicans - this is wrong," she wrote.

Meghan McCain said Tuesday she’s “absolutely heartbroken” to learn that the recently passed government spending bill wipes out an important source of funding to research glioblastoma, the brain cancer that killed her father.

“My fellow republicans - this is wrong,” the former co-host of “The View” wrote on social media, sharing information about Congress’ cuts to the Defense Department’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP), which funds research into various cancers at the National Institutes of Health.

“My father and millions of others have been treated there for Glioblastoma and other brain cancers with miracle doctors and nurses,” she said of her father, the late Sen. John McCain, who died in 2018. Glioblastoma treatments that have come out of NIH research constitute “nothing short of a miracle,” she continued.

“Some government spending is needed and appropriate - cancer research is one of them,” she said.

There is no known cure for glioblastoma, though research has found ways to shrink the tumors and extend patients’ lifespans. McCain died just over a year after his diagnosis in 2017.