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In what could be a major escalation of U.S. pressure on Mexico, the Trump administration has begun to impose travel restrictions and other sanctions on prominent Mexican politicians whom it believes are linked to drug corruption, U.S. officials said.

propublica.org/article/trump-m

ProPublicaTrump Administration Moves to Block the U.S. Travel of Mexican Politicians Who It Says Are Linked to the Drug Trade
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One in the good column for DT? Let's see if the drug companies talk him out of it...
President Trump signed an executive order Monday meant to slash Americans’ #pharmaceutical #costs by up to 90% by tying the price paid by government programs like #Medicare to the rates #drug #companies charge #overseas customers.
nypost.com/2025/05/12/us-news/

New York Post · Trump orders sweeping drug price cuts, vows US will save 'trillions'By Ryan King
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In his first term, #Trump was focused on ensuring that Americans got the lowest #drug #prices. Now, he seems much more concerned about making sure Europeans pay more.

Trump has still not described any specific legal mechanism for lowering #DrugPrices.

Trump claims prices could come down somewhere between 59% & 90%

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#Drug #prices are insanely high in the #US, but #Trump as usual is grossly exaggerating.

Trump is scheduled to leave the White House for his foreign trip in 20 minutes. He has yet to sign the executive order on drug prices.

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#Trump, who is making a #prescription #drug announcement, is now riffing about “the fat drug,” meaning Ozempic or something comparable, that he said a “seriously overweight” & “wealthy” friend told him he was paying way too much for in the United States compared to the price in London.

Now he’s claiming that cutting drug prices will pay for the #GoldenDome w/money left over. Of course he goes off on a tangent claiming Biden made the US unsafe so the golden dome is necessary.

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"I wanted to know how this #drug came to cost so much — and why the price keeps going up. The price of Revlimid has been hiked 26 times since it launched. Some of what happened was reported at the time. But no one has pieced together the full account of what the drugmaker Celgene did, how federal regulators failed to rein it in and what the story reveals about unrestrained drug pricing in #America."
propublica.org/article/revlimi

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The women & girl, who are not named in the indictments, represent only a fraction of the dozens of women federal prosecutors say the brothers used their #wealth & status to lure, #drug & #SexuallyAssault & #rape going back 2 decades to their high school years.

The 3 men pleaded not guilty to the initial charges & are expected to soon be taken back into Manhattan federal court to be arraigned on the new charges.