Political Quotes

“Mr. President, amendment No. 1690 ensures that, if Republicans want to lower taxes on the ultrawealthy, they can't pay for it by raising drug prices on seniors and people with disabilities. Seniors have been demanding lower drug costs, and Democrats delivered with the Inflation Reduction Act. By empowering Medicare to negotiate drug prices, the law cuts Medicare prescription costs and saves taxpayers billions. It also, for the first time, caps annual out-of- pocket costs for seniors with a Medicare drug plan, limits insulin to $35 a month, and expands access to free vaccines. You would think that President Trump, who promised to lower prices for Americans, would want to protect the work we have done in the IRA to do just that. But Big Pharma, right now, is pushing to weaken the Democrats' prescription drug law in this reconciliation bill, and Republicans and President Trump are helping them do it. Making American seniors and people with disabilities foot the bill for bigger tax breaks for billionaires like Elon Musk is just wrong, and it is cruel. I hope my colleagues will agree and support this amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Kansas. Point of Order”