WELCH TAKES RFK JR. TO TASK IN SENATE FINANCE HEARING, EXPOSES TRUMP'S FAILURE TO LOWER PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICES: 'TRUMPRX IS A FRAUD.'

WASHINGTON, April 22 -- Sen. Peter Welch issued the following press release:

In a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) took Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to task for the Trump Administration's failure to lower prescription drug prices for everyday Americans. Senator Welch grilled Secretary Kennedy on how TrumpRx-the Trump Administration's new direct-to-consumer prescription drug platform-has made Big Pharma richer without meaningfully lowering drug prices for American families.

"The point here is TrumpRx was sold as the 'cheapest prices.' Our research challenges that, unfortunately....What I understand is that all but one of the 16 TrumpRx companies have increased pres...