Trump Urged by Democratic Senators to Keep Lowered Drug Prices

A group of lawmakers are urging President Donald Trump to reject pharmaceutical companies’ efforts to pause the Biden administration’s drug-price cuts.

Trump should use his deal-making skills to “flat out reject any request to end negotiations from giant pharmaceutical makers that have spent decades putting profits over patients,” Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Ron Wyden of Oregon and Independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont wrote in a letter to the president seen by Bloomberg.

“There is no legal basis for any pause, and allowing giant pharmaceutical companies to pressure you into one would dramatically increase costs for over 60 ...