Yeah, all that talk from Donald Trump before the 2016 election, after the election, when Democrats took the House in 2018 about how he'd work with Congress to lower the cost of prescription drugs? That was all a big lie. Like everything else out of the man's mouth.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi actually has been working on legislation to lower the cost of prescription drugs, and, The Hill reports, her staff "spent months over the course of this year trying to get White House support for her measure to allow the government to negotiate prices for up to 250 drugs per year, with tough financial penalties for companies that refused to come to the table." That was pointless, at least from the standpoint of achieving anything, as Trump refused to work with her and is now instead bashing her efforts.
“Pelosi and her Do Nothing Democrats drug pricing bill doesn’t do the trick," Trump tweeted Friday. "FEWER cures! FEWER treatments! Time for the Democrats to get serious about bipartisan solutions to lowering prescription drug prices for families." All of which is demonstrably false nonsense.
Going through the motions of acting as though Trump's word could be taken wasn't a total waste of time on Pelosi's part. Not when it comes to 2020 and the all-important issue of health care and everything Trump has done to sabotage it. "He ran as not a Republican [on drug prices] in 2016," Jesse Ferguson, a Democratic strategist, told The Hill. "In 2020, he's gonna be tagged with the scarlet R when it comes to the price of prescription drugs." And everything else.