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Donald Trump: “In my first term, I was able to cut the drugs one quarter of…”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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It's been amazing. But when you look at all of this, everybody was saying that this could never be done with the drugs. It could never be done. And In my first term, I was able to cut the drugs one quarter of a pence. Now, this doesn't sound so good, but I was proud 28 years, drug costs went up and it never stopped. It went up, up, up. And I had. (27:09–27:19)

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Asserts a minor reduction in drug prices during the first term.

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