Trump: ‘Imperative’ that Dems Vote on Bill to Reduce Drug Prices

Hannity: “I think one part that you can’t control, although maybe you can because you have such influence with the Republican Party, is the one big beautiful bill. You put out a big statement on that today. How confident are you, having spent time with majority leader Thune, speaker of the House Johnson?”
Trump:” First of all, Johnson and Thune have been unbelievable. They’ve done a great job. Their soul is into this, their whole heart and soul. They’re working so hard. And it’s always tough when you have a very small — you know, we have a majority, but it’s by, in the Senate, three votes, and in the Republican — in Congress it’s seven. Now, it was one for a period of time. We won some elections in the meantime, but it was actually one. So now it’s seven. And I would say this: even before this big drug and — if you take a look, the cuts that I announced to that, if you take a look at the pharmaceutical and drug cuts, they are so massive that I think a lot of Democrats have to vote for the bill, number one. Number two, even if I didn’t do this today, even if there was no such thing as these 50 to 90% cuts, I mean, think of it, you are selling drugs in other countries for five times more than it costs in the United States, how horrible that is. Anyway, but that’s going to be a thing of the past.”
Hannity: “Some of them are — they are cancer drugs, too, sometimes.”
Trump: “Yeah, everything. It’s very unfair. Very unfair to people. They have cancer and they don’t have much money. They have enough money to get through this, but then they end up going bankrupt. You know, people were getting themselves fixed up or not getting fixed up, either way, and still they were going bankrupt all over the place because they couldn’t afford the drugs. But if they lived in a different country, they would’ve paid just a fraction. Think of how horrible that is. Anyway, so I fixed that. Nobody thought it was fixable and I fixed it. But even without that, I think we would’ve gotten the bill passed. With it, I think a lot of Democrats have to vote. I saw that a couple of Democrats said, ‘I would like to be in charge of...’ — I don’t know if you saw that. You have a couple of people that go on your show, that I assume are moderate Democrats, without mentioning names. Both of them said, ‘I don’t know about you, but I think I’m going to be voting for this bill.’ I think a lot of Democrats are going to be forced to vote for the bill because, you know, you add this element that if this bill passes, you will get a 50 to 90% reduction in prescription drugs and pharmaceuticals. When you add that in, how does a Democrat not vote? I don’t think they can win an election if they don’t vote for it. But even if you don’t include it, I think that the Republicans are very unified and something would happen where they will get this vote. I think it’s imperative they vote.”