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Facebook posts stated on January 23, 2025 in a Facebook post:

President Donald Trump "just reversed all the cost caps Biden negotiated for anyone on Medicare or Medicaid."

By Caleb McCullough• January 23, 2025

Kamala Harris stated on September 10, 2024 in the ABC News presidential debate:

“Donald Trump said he was going to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices. He never did. We did.”

By Jacob Gardenswartz• September 30, 2024

Donald Trump stated on July 24, 2024 in a speech at a campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina:

“Vice President, Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to cut, as you know, Medicare by $273 billion. She cast a vote to cut Medicare.”

By Jacob Gardenswartz• August 15, 2024

Mike Rogers stated on August 16, 2024 in a blog post:

Rep. Elissa Slotkin’s vote for the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act was a vote to “cut Medicare benefits for seniors.”

By Caleb McCullough• August 28, 2024

Bernie Sanders stated on April 22, 2026 in a Senate committee hearing:

“As a result of the 'Big Beautiful Bill' 15 million Americans have been thrown off the healthcare that they need."

By Amy Sherman• April 30, 2026

Joe Biden stated on March 07, 2024 in his State of the Union address:

“We cut the federal deficit by $160 billion because Medicare will no longer have to pay those exorbitant prices to Big Pharma.”

By Amy Sherman• March 11, 2024

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on April 22, 2026 in testimony to the Senate Finance Committee:

"There's two ways of calculating percentage" decreases. “If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

By Louis Jacobson• April 23, 2026

Gwen Moore stated on August 23, 2023 in Public appearance:

Thanks to negotiating drug prices "our seniors, instead of paying $500 a month for drugs, are paying no more than 35 cents."

By Ricardo Torres• October 9, 2023

Donald Trump stated on May 22, 2019 in a speech at the White House:

"Drug prices are coming down, first time in 51 years because of my administration."

By Shefali Luthra, Amy Sherman• May 22, 2019

Tammy Baldwin stated on October 18, 2024 in TV debate:

Says opponent Eric Hovde “opposes efforts to negotiate with the big pharmaceutical companies to lower the price of prescription drugs.”

By D.L. Davis• October 31, 2024

Donald Trump stated on May 11, 2025 in a Truth Social post:

Under a new executive order, prescription drug prices will be reduced “almost immediately.”

By Louis Jacobson• May 14, 2025

Facebook posts stated on September 30, 2020 in a political ad:

“Donald Trump and Thom Tillis opposed legislation that would lower the price of insulin and other prescription drugs.”

By Aneri Pattani• October 19, 2020

Joe Biden stated on August 29, 2023 in a speech at the White House:

“According to the Congressional Budget Office,” the Inflation Reduction Act “will save the federal government $160 billion over the next 10 years because Medicare will be paying less for the prescription drugs they’re making available to seniors.”

By Louis Jacobson• August 31, 2023

Tammy Baldwin stated on January 05, 2017 in a tweet:

The federal government is prohibited "from negotiating lower prescription drug prices for our senior citizens."

By Tom Kertscher• January 17, 2017

Ann Coulter stated on January 30, 2018 in a tweet:

"100% of heroin/fentanyl epidemic is because we don't have a WALL."

By Paul Specht• February 2, 2018

Tucker Carlson stated on November 02, 2020 in a Fox News broadcast:

“When large numbers of people in Butler (Pa.) started killing themselves with narcotics, no one in Washington or New York or Los Angeles said a word about it.”

By Jon Greenberg• November 5, 2020

Joe Biden stated on April 09, 2024 in an interview with Univision:

Starting in 2025 "no matter what your total bills are for prescription drugs,” Medicare Part D users will never pay “more than $2,000 a year, because some of these cancer drugs are 10(,000 to) 15,000 bucks a year.”

By Amy Sherman• April 18, 2024

Facebook posts stated on October 22, 2021 in a Facebook post:

President Joe Biden will “control health care costs by slapping a 95% tax on prescription drugs.”

By Andy Nguyen• November 22, 2021

The Partnership for Safe Medicines stated on April 18, 2019 in a TV ad:

Florida state senators "are pushing a new government program that allows prescription drugs from China without FDA inspection."

By Amy Sherman• April 25, 2019

Donald Trump stated on February 04, 2020 in his State of the Union:

Last year, "for the first time in 51 years, the cost of prescription drugs actually went down."

By Shefali Luthra• February 5, 2020

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