Pence group attacks Trump drug pricing plan as ‘socialist price controls’

FIRST ON FOX: A conservative group based by former Vice President Mike Pence is taking intention at a key coverage utilized by President Donald Trump’s White Home.

Advancing American Freedom (AAF) is launching a six-figure digital promoting marketing campaign Monday that criticizes Most Favored Nation (MFN) drug costs as “socialist worth controls,” in line with AAF President Tim Chapman.

The 30 second ad begins: “China is America’s greatest financial competitor. They need, and infrequently steal, what America has: our improvements, our manufacturing capabilities, our high-skilled, high-wage jobs.”

“If politicians in Washington begin imposing worth controls on our most progressive merchandise, like prescribed drugs, we can be handing American jobs and life-saving analysis to China on a silver platter,” the advert continued.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence’s group, Advancing American Freedom, criticizes President Donald Trump’s drug pricing insurance policies. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Photographs; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs)

It ended with a name to motion: “Inform Congress ‘no’ to China by saying ‘no’ to MFN worth controls.”

And whereas placing strain on the Republican majority on Capitol Hill is the marketing campaign’s major aim, it seems to be a response to Trump having instituted such insurance policies a number of occasions in current months.

Earlier this month, Trump unveiled agreements between the federal authorities and two main pharmaceutical corporations geared toward reducing the price of common weight-loss medication similar to Ozempic and Wegovy, amongst others.

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The collaboration with Eli Lilly & Co. and Novo Nordisk will drop costs for medication supposed to assist Individuals with weight problems, diabetes and coronary heart illness by tons of of {dollars}, Trump stated.

It could additionally decrease costs for Medicare and Medicaid sufferers who depend on such medication.

President Donald Trump speaks within the Oval Workplace on October 10, 2025. (Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)

A White Home truth sheet states that MFN drug costs would additionally apply to “any new medication they carry to market.”

It’s one in all a number of comparable bulletins from Trump in current months geared toward reducing the rising prices of prescribed drugs within the US.

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The brand new decrease costs can be obtainable on a web site known as TrumpRx.

Most medical health insurance plans already assist Individuals pay lower than the record worth of prescriptions, however many do not cowl the above drugs — even when they’re used solely for weight reduction.

The president known as the measure “a triumph for American sufferers that may save lives and enhance the well being of hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of Individuals” in a White Home announcement.

However a memo issued by the AAF in September warned that Trump’s drug insurance policies might imply “a major discount in U.S. analysis and growth” within the pharmaceutical discipline.

Chapman advised Fox Information Digital in regards to the newest advert purchase: “Extra regulation and pink tape will result in fewer medication and life-saving medication coming to market, which is able to in the end value American lives.”

“Advancing American freedom strongly helps the facility of the free market. To attain decrease costs for Individuals, we’d like fewer authorities laws, no more,” he stated.

Three injectable prescription weight reduction drugs: Ozempic, Victoza, and Wegovy. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Common Photographs Group through Getty Photographs)

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It isn’t the primary time this yr that Pence’s group has damaged away from Trump. AAF additionally criticized Trump’s use of tariffs and his more moderen name to finish the filibuster within the Senate.

The White Home pushed again on the characterization of AAF when it reached Fox Information Digital.

“Anybody who calls President Trump’s historic worth fixing ‘worth controls’ is simply too silly or dishonest to be taken critically. Regardless of making up simply 4 % of the world’s inhabitants, Individuals have coated almost 75 % of world pharmaceutical analysis prices by paying a number of occasions extra for medication than our counterparts in different rich nations pay,” White Home spokesperson Kush Desai advised Fox Information Digital.

“President Trump’s offers equalize this burden by making different rich nations pay their fair proportion for the pharmaceutical innovation that saves lives — thereby restoring the free-market ideas that Mike Pence supposedly helps.”