Fact check: Trump lies about lowering prescription drug prices
The steps the administration has taken have been less ambitious than those in a bill the House passed last year.
By Associated Press - September 12, 2020The steps the administration has taken have been less ambitious than those in a bill the House passed last year.
By Associated Press - September 12, 2020Trump’s idea would blow a $16.1 trillion hole in the U.S. budget.
By Associated Press - August 13, 2020Trump’s recent orders won’t stop evictions or cut payroll taxes, and they’ve only created confusion and concern around unemployment insurance.
By Emily Singer - August 10, 2020The Affordable Care Act reduced out-of-pocket prescription costs for seniors.
By Associated Press - May 30, 2020The bipartisan, House-passed H.R. 3 would lower drug costs for all Americans.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 27, 2020Ten days after vowing that he would ‘be cutting’ entitlement programs, Donald Trump called it a lie to suggest he ever would.
By Josh Israel - March 16, 2020Less than 24 hours later, he said the complete opposite.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 06, 2020For every tweet about Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security, Donald Trump sends 100 about Democrats.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 11, 2020The proposal would also fail to eliminate the deficit over 10 years.
By Associated Press - February 10, 2020Trump appears to be walking back prior promises not to cut social safety net programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
By Josh Israel - January 22, 2020House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plan would allow Medicare to negotiate lower prices with pharmaceutical companies.
By Josh Israel - October 14, 2019A conservative dark money group is spending millions to attack popular progressive measures.
By Oliver Willis - August 15, 2019Trump and the GOP have already pushed for major cuts to food stamps, children’s health care, and school lunches.
By Mike Stankiewicz - August 13, 2019Even if the two efforts hadn’t fallen through, they probably wouldn’t have done much to lower prescription drug prices.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 11, 2019Trump has a backchannel way to cut benefits for low-income Americans without the approval of Congress.
By Emily Singer - June 18, 2019Health care rights activist Ady Barkan took what might be his last big trip to advocate for Medicare for All at a congressional hearing.
By Emily Singer - April 30, 2019Top Medicaid official Seema Verma wasted millions of tax dollars on consultants to make herself look good while she tried to kill Obamacare.
By Oliver Willis - March 29, 2019Trump’s budget proposal calls for repealing the Affordable Care Act, and includes a $220 billion cut to food stamps, among other draconian proposals.
By Emily Singer - March 11, 2019The Republican tax scam has completely failed, so now Mitch McConnell wants to gut America’s social safety net to foot the enormous bill.
By Oliver Willis - October 17, 2018