President Donald Trump’s Most Favored Nation policies and TrumpRx platform have produced the largest annual drop in U.S. prescription drug prices in over 60 years, the steepest since 1963, according to the administration. The update follows years of price increases across much of the sector, with Americans footing the bill for other nations' use. "Without even twisting an arm, without trying to pass a new bill, he [Trump] brought all these players together with TrumpRX to lower the cost of prescription drugs, and he continues to do that because this guy understands leverage. He understands the bully pulpit," Rep. Jimmy Patronis, R-Fla., told Just The News. TrumpRx has already generated $700 million in patient savings. GLP-1 drugs that previously exceeded $1,000 monthly now start at $149; many other high-cost medications (insulin, inhalers, fertility drugs, cholesterol treatments) have fallen 50–90%. Prescription prices are down 3.9% since Trump took office and have declined every month of 2026. Americans have long paid substantially higher prices for brand-name prescription drugs than patients in other developed countries—often three to four times as much, according to RAND analyses of 2022 data comparing the U.S. to 33 OECD nations. Pharmaceutical companies and economic studies maintain that these elevated U.S. prices generate the majority of global revenues required to fund the costly, high-risk research and development of new medicines. Other nations’ price controls allow them to pay closer to manufacturing costs, effectively free-riding on American-financed innovation and leaving U.S. patients to shoulder a disproportionate share of the investment that benefits patients worldwide. Trump’s Most Favored Nation policy directly confronts the long-standing imbalance... By securing voluntary agreements with 17 major drug manufacturers like Eli Lilly, AbbVie, and Johnson & Johnson, covering roughly 86% of the branded market, the administration requires U.S. prices to match the lowest levels paid by comparable countries. A medieval disease known as typhus is surging in Los Angeles County as the region grapples with growing homelessness, unsanitary conditions, and a major rat problem. Flea-borne typhus, a bacterial disease transmitted to humans through infected fleas, reached an all-time high in the county in 2025, with 220 cases reported. That’s up from 187 cases the year before. Nearly 9 out of 10 people diagnosed with the disease in 2025 required hospitalization, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Dr. Dean Winslow is a Stanford professor and infectious disease physician with 50 years in medicine. When asked whether a typhus outbreak in one of America’s wealthiest cities indicates a broader health or sanitation failure, Winslow didn’t hesitate. “Absolutely,” Winslow told the Daily Signal. “It’s largely an issue of … people living in just horrible conditions in close proximity to rats,” Winslow said, describing rats as the primary hosts involved in the infection. In recent years, California has restricted some poisons traditionally used to kill rats. In 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1788, which restricted most uses of four rodenticides because of their potential harm to mountain lions and other wildlife. Winslow said the restrictions may be one possible factor hindering rat control, noting that pest-control efforts have increasingly relied on “rat traps” and “less potent” methods. https://amac.us/newsline/why-is-this-medieval-disease-striking-la-county Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fact-checked Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro after he claimed that there is “no fetal tissue” in the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, known as MMR. The post included video testimony from Dr. Stanley Plotkin, who developed the rubella component of the MMR vaccine, according to the Smithsonian. “Plotkin admits to butchering 76 aborted normally developing fetuses, all over three months old, in just one of the many studies that led to the development of his vaccine,” RFK Jr. wrote. “The rubella virus used in MMR-II is grown on the cultured cell line composed of lung tissue from an aborted three-month-old female embryo and listed as ‘WI-38 human diploid lung fibroblasts’ in the ingredients of MMR-II as portions of these cells end up in each vial of MMR II,” Kennedy added. “This equals approximately 646 billion pieces of human DNA from an aborted fetal cell line in each vial of MMR-II. In addition to the human DNA, there is also an unspecified amount of human cellular debris in each dose of MMR-II,” the HHS secretary said. The American Academy of Pediatrics refutes this assertion on its website, stating, “Vaccines do not contain fetal cells. Some vaccines involve growing viruses in human cell cultures originally developed from two aborted fetuses in the 1960s. These cell lines are still going, so no new aborted fetuses are ever needed. Purification processes filter the vaccine during production, and no fetal tissue remains.” [County Commissioner] Parsons continued, “They currently have zero measles deaths in Lancaster County. They have one death of a person who died WITH measles, but not from measles...." https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/rfk-jr-fact-checks-democratic-governor-claimed-no/ Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) released records detailing a May 7, 2020, CIA briefing involving Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former FDA commissioner who had joined Pfizer’s board of directors the previous year. Paul announced on X: “I released documents showing Pfizer and the CIA privately acknowledged high population immunity as early as May 2020, while the public heard a different story. Americans deserve the truth.” The date on the briefing is May 7, 2020. That is two months after the country was shut down. Churches closed. Small businesses crushed. Kids locked out of school. Fauci and Deborah Birx still talking as if this was a rare, novel threat that required indefinite emergency rule until a pharmaceutical product arrived. In August 2021, The Gateway Pundit reported that a new study out of Israel has seemingly confirmed that individuals who have natural immunity have better protection against the new COVID variant than people who are fully vaccinated. Not just a little bit better either. People who have taken both doses of the Pfizer jab are 13 TIMES more likely to have a breakthrough infection... https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/ex-fda-commissioner-privately-told-cia-that-up/ 
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