Believers Are Never More Useful To God And Dangerous To Satan Than When They Are Bold And Courageous In Prayer: Three companies decide what Americans pay for prescription drugs. Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) companies like Express Scripts, CVS Caremark, and UnitedHealth’s OptumRx control roughly 80 percent the prescriptions filled in this country. These PBMs are middlemen who sit between your doctor and your pharmacist and skim a “rebate” from every transaction, coordinate behind the scenes to steer employers to higher-priced plans, and use overseas shell corporations to avoid scrutiny from American consumers and media (and the IRS). The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued all three companies for harming vulnerable patients by artificially driving up drug prices. Back in February, Express Scripts finally settled with the Trump FTC. They agreed to follow more standard and transparent policies. For example, they must base patient costs on the actual drug price; they must disclose payments to consultants who are steering employers to higher-priced plans; and they must provide data so sponsors can see what members are actually being charged. FTC officials estimate that this will drive down patient costs by $7 Billion – money that was being siphoned away from diabetics, seniors, and working families to line the pockets of PBM executives. Express Scripts also agreed to reshore their overseas purchasing organization, which PBMs have used to avoid tax liability for their rebate schemes. The Trump FTC says this will bring $750 billion of economic activity back to the U.S., instead of bouncing to foreign shell companies. The other two PBMs are stalling... President Trump promised to lower drug prices for the forgotten Americans. His FTC is doing the work along with other departments like the Department of Labor (DOL) to advance PBM regulations that help American employers. These are great steps in the right direction and need to continue. Americans need greater accountability and transparency into their insurance benefits, we need an end to kickbacks that drive up costs for consumers, and we need to close down foreign shadow corporations whose sole purpose is to avoid American laws. It’s time for the FTC to drop the hammer on companies like CVS and OptumRx, and for Congress to prioritize PBM reform in 2026. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/05/16/trumps-ftc-is-knocking-out-the-middlemen/ The second in command of ISIS globally, Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, was killed by U.S. and Nigerian forces targeting the top terrorist in the northeast region of the African country, President Donald Trump announced. Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinabu has confirmed the terrorist’s death. In a statement posted on X, Tinubu confirmed the “heavy blow against the Islamic State” and expressed his “sincere gratitude to President Trump” for the success of the joint operation. He said several of al-Minuki’s lieutenants were also taken out in the raid. Federal authorities charged an Iran-backed Iraqi militia commander accused of orchestrating a sweeping retaliation campaign targeting Americans and Jews, alleging he coordinated nearly 20 attacks abroad before authorities disrupted a plot targeting a prominent Manhattan synagogue and Jewish institutions in California and Arizona. Prosecutors allege Al-Saadi and his associates planned, coordinated, or claimed responsibility for at least 18 attacks across Europe and two additional operations in Canada while simultaneously attempting to expand that campaign onto American soil. [Much more at the link.] Vice President JD Vance exposed the theft of $15 million in Medicaid funding committed by a single migrant in Maine during a visit to Bangor on Thursday. “Fraud is exactly what happens when you’ve got a government that is not fighting for the American people but is fighting for fraudsters and illegal aliens. And it has to stop. And under the Trump administration, we are fighting it every single day,” Vance said speaking to a packed hanger at an event to boost former Gov. Paul LePage’s bid for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District. ...a migrant billed the state for millions to provide “interpreter services” for illegal aliens, but never provided any such services at all. “Rakiya Mohamed was not a particularly upstanding citizen… she was providing zero services and collecting $15 million over a five year period that was going directly into her pocket,” Vance said. Vance promised that scrutiny by the Trump administration on Maine’s climate of fraud is just the beginning. “I can’t promise but I suspect we’re going to find hundreds of millions of more dollars every single month that we look in the state of Maine, because this is not a state that takes it seriously,” Vance said.
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