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Trump Touts Cutting Drug Prices, Slams Fellow Republican Rep. Massie During Stops in Ohio, Kentucky

Trump campaigned in northern Kentucky to unseat Rep. Massie while promoting his administration's drug price cuts and citing $5 million in pro-Gallrein outside spending.

  • On Wednesday, President Donald Trump visited Thermo Fisher Scientific pharmaceutical plant in Reading, Ohio, touring the facility alongside Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Dr. Mehmet Oz to promote efforts reducing prescription drug costs.
  • Trump highlighted the company's $2 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing, attributing the expansion to his 'America First Trade Policies,' which he claimed charge foreign countries for market access while strengthening domestic supply chains.
  • Promoting his 'Most Favored Nation' status, Trump said, "In 28 years medicine's only gone up," explaining the policy ties U.S. drug prices to rates in other developed nations to help keep costs down.
  • Following the Ohio event, Trump traveled to Hebron, Kentucky, to campaign for Ed Gallrein, a primary challenger to Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, who has faced criticism for defying the president on Iran.
  • The trip occurred amid military action in Iran, which Trump described as an "excursion that will keep us out of a war." He added, "for them, it's a war. For us, it's turned out to be easier.
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NBC Bay Area broke the news in San Francisco, United States on Wednesday, March 11, 2026.
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