US EditionTrump Touts Reductions in Drug Prices, Blames Democrats for ACA Premium Increases
President Trump claimed up to 600% drug price cuts during a speech, but Fox News and experts called the figures mathematically impossible and misleading.
- On Wednesday, President Donald Trump claimed he dramatically lowered prescription drug costs and promoted trumprx.gov as a discount site starting in January, saying the cuts "began as of 4 days ago."
- Through tariff threats and a May executive order, the White House said it pressured drugmakers to lower prices within 30 days.
- During a Thursday interview, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick offered a $100 to $13 hypothetical and said `It all depends on how you look at it` as Fox News' John Roberts called the claims "mathematically impossible."
- Media fact‑checkers immediately found errors as fact‑checking networks and news organizations widely debunked many claims, while ACA premium tax credits face expiration on Dec. 31 unless Congress acts.
- Longer term, experts point to reforms such as curbing monopolies and centralizing negotiations, since Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services prices for 15 Part D drugs won’t drop until 2027.
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Secretary of Commerce gets schooled on basic maths after Donald Trump’s impossible claim about drug prices
Maths is hard, especially for Donald Trump and his supporters it would seem, perhaps there’s a correlation there. Recently, Trump proudly boasted that he had reduced the price of drugs by an incredible yet mathematically impossible 600%, when questioned on it by a Fox News host, the Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, doubled down and insisted that the numbers were correct. Lutnick, who’s certainly not the brightest of the bunch, was question…
Fox News Anchor Corners Trump Goon Over President’s ‘Impossible’ Math
Not even Fox News was buying the Trump administration’s nonsense claim that the president has lowered some prescription drug prices by as much as “600 percent.” Fox anchor John Roberts on Thursday confronted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about that assertion, which was one of several off-the-mark boasts by the president in his primetime address the night before. Roberts, 69, noted that what Trump said was “mathematically impossible.” “If you…
'How stupid he sounds': Trump official mocked after Fox host confronts him on 'hyperbole'
Even Fox News is skeptical of claims coming from President Donald Trump's administration, according to one recent exchange on the conservative network.During a Thursday interview with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Fox host John Roberts pointed out that Trump's claim during his Wednesday night address that he had lowered prescription drug prices by up to 600 percent was "mathematically impossible.""If you cut something by 100 percent, the co…
'Mathematically impossible': Fox News host busts Trump's lie about 600% cut to drug costs
Fox News host John Roberts told White House aide Howard Lutnick that President Donald Trump's claim of cutting drug prices by 600% was "mathematically impossible.""I'm going to ask you about the reality versus the perception," Roberts said the day after Trump's speech to the nation. "Because some of...
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