Washington — Former Republican Sen. Ben Sasse introduced Tuesday that he has terminal stage-four pancreatic most cancers.
Sasse, 53, introduced his prognosis on X, saying it’s a “death sentence.”
“Friends – This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die,” he wrote.
Sasse represented Nebraska within the U.S. Senate from 2015 to 2023, resigning to turn into president of the College of Florida. He stepped down from that position in July 2024, citing his spouse’s well being points. He and his spouse, Melissa, have three youngsters.
“This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad,” Sasse wrote in his publish.
“There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst,” Sasse added. “As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come.”
File photograph: Sen. Ben Sasse, a Republican from Nebraska, throughout a Senate listening to on April 27, 2021.
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Within the Senate, the conservative Sasse was at occasions important of Mr. Trump, regardless of aligning with the Trump administration on many insurance policies. Sasse voted “guilty” in Mr. Trump’s impeachment trial after the. Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, becoming a member of six of his Republican colleagues, although the vote fell in need of the two-thirds majority wanted to convict.
The Nebraska-born son of a highschool trainer and soccer coach, Sasse earned his bachelor’s diploma in authorities from Harvard earlier than finding out at Oxford College and St. John’s School. He obtained his PhD in historical past from Yale College.
“Thanks for reminding us, Ben, it is how we live not how long we live that counts,” wrote Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas.
It is a creating story and shall be up to date.
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