During a House Democratic leadership press briefing on Wednesday, Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) discussed President Trump’s executive order aimed at lowering prescription drug prices.
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00:00Thank you, sir. I wanted to ask your response to President Trump's executive order.
00:04They signed earlier that he said it was aimed at cutting drug prices.
00:08If Republicans were serious about this issue, they would join with Democrats.
00:15They would have joined with Democrats when we lowered the cost of prescription drugs across this country.
00:21Right now, they and their friends are working to sue, to unwind those efforts.
00:26That's unacceptable.
00:28There are bills that Democrats are carrying that would lower the cost of prescription drugs,
00:34actually put more money in people's pockets.
00:37All of this is just a disingenuous effort on the part of House Republicans and Donald Trump
00:43to pretend like they were looking out for people.
00:46If they were serious about it, the policy would be placed within their reconciliation plan.
00:51It's not. This is just a performance effort by the President.
00:57Thank you very much.