PHARMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump has postponed a speech on lowering prescription drug prices previously scheduled for Thursday 4-26-18] to a date in the near future, the White House said on Sunday [4-25-18].The White House did not provide a date or time frame for when the speech would take place, and did not say why it had been pushed back. The address would have been Trump’s first about lowering drug prices, one of the main issues he campaigned on during the 2016 presidential race. The Republican president has said pharmaceutical companies are ‘getting away with murder’ and has vowed to lower prescription drug prices. But the administration’s proposals so far have been modest and do not go after drug companies. Congressional action on the issue is seen as unlikely.”
–Reuters Staff, “Trump delays drug pricing speech, no set date yet,” Reuters, April 23, 2018 7:18 am