RFK Jr. spars with Bernie Sanders over who did most to curb prescription drug prices

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Source: USA Today

Updated May 12, 2025, 7:08 pm. ET


Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy is crediting a political rival for setting in motion President Donald Trump's newest policy aimed at lowering prescription drug prices: Bernie Sanders. Kennedy Jr. mentioned the Vermont independent senator by name during a May 12 White House press conference where Trump signed an executive order directing drugmakers to lower the prices of their medicines in alignment with global markets. “This was the fulcrum of Bernie Sanders’ runs for presidency,” Kennedy said, recalling the 2016 and 2020 campaigns for the White House where Sanders frequently mentioned drug prices.

“That he was going to eliminate this discrepancy between Europe and the United States.” Touting what he said is the across-the-aisle appeal of the Trump administration's efforts, Kennedy added that a couple of his kids are Democrats and “big Bernie Sanders fans” who had “tears in their eyes” when he told them about the Republican president's new executive order. “It's one of these promises that politicians make to their constituents knowing that they'll never have to do it,” said Kennedy, a former 2024 Democratic-turned-independent presidential candidate who then went on to endorse Trump's Republican campaign before joining his Cabinet earlier this year.

Sanders, who failed to win the Democratic nomination in both of his past runs for president, responded to the latest Trump move by chiding the new GOP-led administration for playing politics with an issue it knows “will be thrown out by the courts." “If Trump is serious about making real change rather than just issuing a press release,” Sanders added, the president and his Cabinet members would support legislation on the issue.

Other Democrats were also quick to try to set the record straight. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, said it was former Democratic President Biden's 2022 Inflation Reduction Act that empowered Medicare to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies on a limited number of medications. The Biden administration also negotiated lower prices on 10 widely prescribed drugs - which will take effect in 2026. I

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[Karasu]

1. RFK Jr. can barely fucking TALK, let alone "spar." Sanders is far, far out of his league.

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Dude sounds like a fucking dying frog every time the brain worm attempts to communicate through that orifice in his head.