Trump vows to lower drug prices in the US by up to 80 per cent

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : In a social media post on Sunday evening, Trump said he would sign an order on Monday to reduce prices "almost immediately by 30 per cent to 80 per cent".
42% : Donald Trump plans to use his executive powers to force pharmaceutical companies to drastically reduce the cost of drugs in the US, despite fierce opposition from the industry and some senior Republicans.
41% : "Campaign Contributions can do wonders, but not with me, and not with the Republican Party," Trump added on Truth Social.
40% : The group had argued that restricting drug prices would harm pharmaceutical research in the US.
35% : A similar move was attempted by Trump during his first term in office, but failed to progress amid strong resistance from the pharmaceutical industry.
32% : Trump addressed the claim in his post, writing that drugs companies "would say, for years, that it was Research and Development Costs, and that all of these costs were, and would be, for no reason whatsoever, borne by the "suckers" of America, ALONE".

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