{"id":9130,"date":"2025-05-12T16:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-to-thune-and-johnson-tariffs-and-drug-pricing-policy-would-save-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T16:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:51:11","slug":"trump-to-thune-and-johnson-tariffs-and-drug-pricing-policy-would-save-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-to-thune-and-johnson-tariffs-and-drug-pricing-policy-would-save-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to Thune and Johnson: Tariffs and drug pricing policy would save ‘hundreds of millions’ of dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump said Monday he \u201cjust called\u201d Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune to inform them about the cost savings they could recoup for their party-line megabill \u2014 thanks to the president’s sprawling tariff regime and his \u201cmost favored nation\u201d drug pricing executive order.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re gonna have to, No. 1, score hundreds of millions of dollars of tariff money coming in,\u201d Trump said, seemingly referring to a cost analysis by the Congressional Budget Office. \u201cBut even bigger than that, you\u2019re gonna have to score that your costs for Medicaid and Medicare and just basically pharmaceuticals and drugs are coming down at a level nobody has ever seen before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neither provision is included in draft legislation related to the package of tax cuts and extensions, border security investments, energy policy and more, and each would be unlikely to get the near-unanimous GOP support needed for passage.<\/p>\n

Trump delivered this remarks from the White House during the rollout of his \u201cmost favored nation\u201d executive order, which he says will help slash drug costs<\/a> by tying the price the United States pays for drugs to the lower prices paid by other nations.<\/p>\n

Congressional Republicans are divided over their party\u2019s proposals for significant changes to Medicaid<\/a> \u2014 including likely cuts to the safety net program<\/a> \u2014 to help pay for their megabill, which is paramount for enacting Trump\u2019s domestic agenda.<\/p>\n

In his comments on Monday, Trump appeared to try to assuage those concerns, echoing a frequent talking point that his tariffs \u2014 and now drug pricing policies \u2014 would soon bring in enough money to allow the government to make massive spending cuts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes that whole situation different from a scoring standpoint,\u201d Trump said of the drug pricing announcement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump said Monday he \u201cjust called\u201d Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune to inform them about the cost savings they could recoup for their party-line megabill \u2014 thanks to the president’s sprawling tariff regime and his \u201cmost favored nation\u201d drug pricing executive order. \u201cYou\u2019re gonna have to, No. 1, score […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}