Trump boosts Grassley-Wyden drug pricing bill

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have publicly endorsed pending Senate legislation that seeks to restructure the Medicare Part D drug benefit and impose inflation caps on prescription drug prices.

“I’ve been speaking to Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa and others in Congress in order to get something on drug pricing done, and done quickly and properly,” Trump said Tuesday night in the State of the Union address to Congress. “I’m calling for bipartisan legislation that achieves the goal of dramatically lowering prescription drug prices. Get a bill on my desk and I will sign it into law immediately."...