5 days ago - “President Trump has had a lot of strong rhetoric on drug prices and negotiating deals with manufacturers to lower prices, and they’ve taken a lot of different steps to try to bring drug prices down,” Juliette Cubanski, vice president and director of the Program on Medicare Policy at KFF, told The Hill. “But it’s also true that this move to end these extra premium subsidies for some Medicare drug plans cuts in the other direction because it could translate to higher premium costs for millions of people with Medicare,” she said. The Biden-era Medicare Part D subsidies will expire at the end of the year and won’t be offered in 2027, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said — a decision that comes just months after Republicans in Congress allowed ObamaCare subsidies to expire. Medicare Part D is optional insurance that helps cover brand-name and generic prescription drugs.

August 13, 2025 - Trump has unveiled a number of moves aimed at cutting drug prices in recent months, but he has yet to move the needle on reducing costs – much less slashing them by 1,500%, which is mathematically impossible, experts say.

3 weeks ago - Those include Eliquis, Pfizer's blood thinner marketed with Bristol Myers Squibb, and Ibrance, a drug for advanced and metastatic breast cancer. Pfizer's COVID treatment drug Paxlovid is also nowhere to be found on TrumpRx.

August 11, 2025 - Trump has unveiled a number of moves aimed at cutting drug prices in recent months, but he has yet to move the needle on reducing costs - much less slashing them by 1,500%, which is mathematically impossible, experts say.

2 weeks ago - Analysts say generic drug makers, which enter the market after patents expire and usually compete against other companies offering identical products, operate on much tighter margins than brand-name drug makers, CNBC reports. Industry leaders say they will likely either pass the tariff on to consumers or exit the market. Analysts at JP Morgan say Trump's proposal is probably a starting point for negotiations, reports the Journal. They say that since it will sharply increase costs for US consumers, it's doubtful whether the tariff at the rate Trump proposes will ever be implemented. ... As jet fuel prices rose, Southwest turned to the Panama Canal. You now must be 16 for this part of 'Hawaii culture.' California just upgraded its welcome to visitors. Germany gave up most of its bunkers, perhaps unwisely. ... The stories that shaped the week, in your inbox.

August 7, 2025 - He went on to say, “We will have reduced drug prices by 1,000% by 1,100, 1,200, 1,300, 1,400, 700, 600; not 30 or 40 or 50% but numbers the likes of which you’ve never even dreamed of before,” as you can see in the following video posted ...

August 5, 2025 - Days after he sent letters instructing top pharmaceutical manufacturers to use a “most favored nation” pricing model for prescription drugs, President Donald Trump told reporters Sunday that he had cut costs by up to 1,500%.

February 6, 2026 - HISTORIC LAUNCH TO LOWER DRUG PRICES FOR AMERICAN PATIENTS: Today, President Donald J. Trump announced the launch of TrumpRx.gov. Through the website,

August 26, 2025 - President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Monday that his Most Favored Nation policy, which aims to cut the price of prescription drugs in the U.S., will lower drug prices by 1400% to 1500%.

August 4, 2025 - "We've cut drug prices by 1,200, 1,300, 1,400, 1,500 percent. I don't mean 50 percent. I mean 14-, 1,500 percent," Trump said.

August 4, 2025 - They’re all smarter than him, but in true dictatorship fashion, they’ll all bend into pretzels explaining how prices are in fact down 1500% ... He is a demented old man! ... Not to defend Trump, but this is the kind of retrospective maths calculation that many people perform incorrectly, with percents and proportions, all the time.

August 14, 2025 - A self-described "excellent businessman" who has a lifelong record of failures, scams, fraud charges, grifting, stealing, using the legal system to bully & bulldoze employees, shareholders, partners & the like. The lifelong grifting liar demonstrates the value of his alleged Economics degree.

2 weeks ago - Imported generic drugs will face a 100 percent tariff beginning in August 2028 unless manufacturers move production to the U.S., President Trump said in a social media post Tuesday. Trump wrote on …

This is a very big announcement — the biggest ever, concerning drugs and drug pricing. So, today, I have to tell you it’s a great honor for me to announce that my administration is issuing two groundbreaking rules to very dramatically lower the price of prescription drugs for the American people, especially for our cherished seniors.

September 29, 2025 - if they did not “have drug costs that drop like a rock.”3 He later said he would cut prices by “1,200, ... Today marks 60 days since Trump asked pharmaceutical companies to lower prices.

Answer (1 of 61): To understand this, you need to pull back a little and see the bigger picture. In the first Trump term the US officially moved into the post truth era. Pre-Trump politicians may have misled people and even outright lied but there was still an expectation that they should tell th...

February 25, 2026 - President Donald Trump has said that Americans are now paying or will pay "the lowest price anywhere in the world for drugs," thanks to the administration’s negotiations with pharmaceutical companies. The administration has announced discounted cash prices for a small number of brand-name drugs. There isn’t evidence Trump’s deals so far have led to broad decreases in drug prices, nor is it certain they will in the future.

August 6, 2025 - Days after he sent letters instructing top pharmaceutical manufacturers to use a “most favored nation” pricing model for prescription drugs, President Donald Trump told reporters on Sunday that he had cut costs by up to 1,500%.