RFK Jr, Donald Trump and drug prices
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Full Video/Highlights: Trump Announces Prescription Drug Price Caps, Press Conference On Many Topics
President Trump will hold a press conference Monday morning with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to announce an executive order to cap prescription drug and pharmaceutical prices at the lowest cost offered in any other country.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drew mockery on social media Monday after appearing to borrow one of President Donald Trump ’s most ridiculed catchphrases. During a press event promoting Trump’s latest executive order aimed at lowering prescription drug prices, Kennedy praised the move in dramatic terms.
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Kennedy is set to defend a 2026 budget proposal that includes a 26% reduction to the department’s $127 billion budget of discretionary spending.
He also has four children, Conor, 30, Kyra, 29, William Finbar “Finn,” 26, and Aidan, 23, with his late second wife, Mary Richardson. Through his marriage to actress Cheryl Hines, Kennedy is also stepfather to Catherine Young, 21.
Reps. Jack Bergman (R-Mich.) and Lou Correa (D-Calif.), who co-chair the Congressional Psychedelic Advancing Therapies Caucus, seek a meeting in light of Collins’ recent promotion of the drug therapy.
Dr. Oz, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber for an extended conversation on the Trump administration’s plan to lower prescription drug prices, the future of Medicaid,
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will testify before the House Appropriations Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.