But will potential pharmaceutical tariffs nullify lower prescription costs? Plus Biden knocks DOGE Social Security job cuts.

President Trump directed his administration to help states import drugs from Canada. But a proposal to alter a Medicare program to reduce costs could wind up raising prices.

The president said he would build on the Medicare drug-price negotiation program begun under Joe Biden, but supports a change sought by the pharmaceutical industry.

Drugmakers have been warned that the Trump Administration is considering linking U.S. medicine prices to lower amounts paid by other developed countries, according to two company sources who called the option the pharmaceutical industry's top concern.

State lawmakers are pushing a measure to expand a controversial federal program that gives hospitals hefty discounts on drugs as the Trump administration seeks to curtail spending within the program.