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President Trump just did what every other politician only talked aboutโhe took a sledgehammer to Big Pharma. With the stroke of a pen, he signed an executive order that could slash drug prices by as much as 90%.
And then RFK Jr. stepped up and revealed why no one elseโnot even Bernie Sandersโever followed through.
It was a moment youโll remember for decades. Standing before reporters and his healthcare team, President Trump announced the most aggressive move on drug pricing America has ever seen. The plan? To cut prescription drug costs by up to 90%โa direct strike against the industry thatโs drained American families dry for years.
โStarting today, the United States will no longer subsidize the health care of foreign countries, which is what we were doing,โ Trump said. โWe were subsidizing othersโ health care, countries where they paid a small fraction of what for the same drug that what we pay many, many times more for.โ
This wasnโt just about reining in corporate greed. Trump laid it out clearly: this was a global scam, and America was the one footing the bill.
โAnd [we] will no longer tolerate profiteering and price gouging from Big Pharma,โ he added. โBut again, it was really the countries that forced Big Pharma to do things that frankly, Iโm not sure they really felt comfortable doing, but theyโve gotten away with it, these countries, European Union has been brutal, brutal.โ
Trump promised that would change. โSo for the first time in many years, weโll slash the cost of prescription drugs and we will bring fairness to America.โ
How much cheaper? โIf you think of a drug that is sometimes ten times more expensive, itโs much more than the 59%โฆ but between 59 and 80, and I guess even 90%.โ
For struggling families, this wasnโt just reform. It was real relief.
Then came the reveal that changed everything. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood beside the president and exposed one of Washingtonโs best-kept secrets. It wasnโt just corruptionโit was betrayal.
โThis is an extraordinary day,โ Kennedy began. โThis is an issue that, you know, I grew up in the Democratic Party, and every major Democratic leader for 20 years has been making this promise to the American people.โ
He pointed straight to Bernie Sanders, who made drug pricing the core of his presidential campaigns. โThis was the fulcrum of Bernie Sanders runs for presidency, that he was going to eliminate this discrepancy between Europe and the United States.โ
But none of them actually meant to fix it.
โAs it turns out, none of them were doing it. And itโs one of these promises that politicians make to their constituents, knowing that theyโll never have to do it.โ
Why not? Because the system was never meant to be fixed.
โThereโs at least one pharmaceutical lobbyist for every congressman, every Senator on Capitol Hill, and every member of the Supreme Court,โ Kennedy said.
โThere has never been a president more willing to stand up to the oligarchs than President Donald Trump,โ he added. โAnd Iโm very, very proud of you, Mr. President, for your courage, for Iโll say it because I donโt want to be crude, your intestinal fortitude, your stiff spine and your willingness to stand up for the American people.โ
With one line, RFK Jr. shattered the bipartisan charadeโand gave Trump credit no Democrat had the guts to say out loud.
Then Dr. Oz came with a line that hit hard.
โThis is the most powerful executive order on pharmacy pricing and healthcare ever in the history of our nation.โ
He explained how Americans were stuck paying five to ten times more than Europeans for the exact same drugsโand why that ends now.
โItโs only happening because we have a president with the fortitude, the guts to stand up to the withering criticism and lobbying thatโs going to occur as soon as folks hear about the executive order,โ said the head of CMS.
Dr. Oz made it personal. โOn behalf of the child in Philadelphia with a $1,000-a-month drug, or the older woman in L.A. who canโt afford her blood thinnerโIโm going to thank President Trump. God bless you for having the guts to take on this industry.โ
He said Trumpโs plan will force other countries to start paying their fair share, just like with NATO.
โWhen President Trump said youโve got to pay a little more, they came up. The same thing we believe will happen here.โ
Negotiations with drug companies start in 30 days. For the first time ever, prices will be tied to global benchmarks.
โWeโre going to be able to get the pharmaceutical industry wholeโand finally pay the appropriate amount.โ
Then NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya took the mic and called it what it was: long overdue.
โWhat President Trump has done is a historic measure that should have been done a long time ago.โ
He explained the economics behind the scam. โOne thing thatโs really, really simple in economics is that when you have a persistent price difference for the same product between two countries, thereโs something deeply wrong.โ
Bhattacharya said Americans were being used to fund global research and development, and that ends now.
โRight now, whatโs happening is the American people are subsidizing, in a large fraction, the research and development efforts for drug companies around the world, by the higher prices that we pay.โ
โWith this new order, Europe will share the burden of that.โ
This wasnโt new information. The facts have been known for decades. But no one actedโuntil now.
โWeโre standing up for the American consumer whoโs been paying far too high prices for far too long.โ
โAnd nothing has been done about it until this moment.โ
He turned to the president and said, โIโm really, really proud, President Trump, that you have done this, and Iโm really proud to be included in this and looking forward to the work ahead.โ
And just before signing, the press tried to crash the moment. Trump made it clear: Democrats were now in a tough spot.
โWeโre now, on top of the tax cuts and regulation cuts, all the things, now youโre going to say that the price of your medicine is going down by 60, 70, 80%. Youโre going to vote against it?โ
โI think a lot of Democrats will be forced to do something that their leaders are going to beg them not to do, and thatโs vote for the bill.โ
โI donโt see how they can vote against it.โ
Thatโs when ABC jumped in with a question about a jet from Qatar, implying it was a personal gift to Trump.
Without skipping a beat, Trump fired back. โYouโre ABC fake news, right?โ
โLet me tell you, you should be embarrassed asking that question. Theyโre giving us a free jet. I could say no, no, no. Donโt give us. I want to pay you a billion or $400 million or whatever it is. Or I can say thank you very much.โ
When she pressed again, Trump hit even harder.
โItโs not a gift to me, itโs a gift to the Department of Defense. You should know better. Because youโve been embarrassed enough, and so has your network.โ
โYour network is a disaster. ABC is a disaster,โ Trump added.
Finally, Trump lifted the bill and called Kennedy up beside him. โHere is the bill, Bobby, come on over here.โ
The media tried to ruin the momentโbut couldnโt. The story was too big, too impactful, and too undeniably positive for the American people to spin.
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