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Trump Administration Gives Big Pharma a Blank Check

February 27, 2020 Buck Banks

“We would want to ensure that we work to make it affordable, but we can’t control that price, because we need the private sector to invest… Price controls won’t get us there.”

— Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar refused to promise a coronavirus vaccine will be affordable, The Verge reports.

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‘Nero’ Cans Hero, Picks Pirro
Buck Banks | May. 10, 2025

When Ed Martin turned out to be the insurrectionists’ hero,
Trump turned his attention to FOX TV’s Jeanine Pirro.
So, do we think there’s a snowball’s chance
Of Trump naming someone competent who’s not on FOX?
Nope, in our playbook the odds of that are less than zero.

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    “The Trump Administration is drowning in corruption — and few Americans seem to care. It’s another sign of a dying Republic.”

    — Professor Larry Sabato, quoted by Blue Virginia.

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    “It’s time for Joe Biden to go away with all due respect and let the next generation of Democrats take the mantle. Every time he appears on a show or says something, it’s just another week or a month that we have to defend him and remind everybody that we got beat by Donald Trump, again. For those of us trying to rebuild the brand, it does no good when you’re constantly reminded about the old brand that won’t go away.”

    — Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha, quoted by Politico.

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    “I think we essentially have become a kleptocracy that would make Putin blush. I mean, keep in mind that in the first three months, the Trump family has become $3 billion wealthier, so that’s a billion dollars a month.”

    — Business school professor Scott Galloway, quoted by the New Republic.

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    “Every day is a kind of Watergate at this point.”

    — The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, speaking at a journalism summit.

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    “People who question whether the Earth is round — a fact understood by the ancient Greeks and taught to American children in elementary school — might have been political pariahs a decade ago. Now, they’re running local Republican parties in Georgia and Minnesota and seeking public office in Alabama.”

    — New York Times

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    10.3 million

    Politico: “The Medicaid portions of the GOP megabill would lead to 10.3 million people losing coverage under the health safety net program and 7.6 million people going uninsured, according to estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.”

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    $21 million

    “The Trump administration spent at least $21 million transporting migrants to Guantanamo Bay on military aircraft between January 20 and April 8,” NBC News reports. “The naval base there currently holds 32 migrants, a tiny fraction of the 30,000 that President Donald Trump promised. Guantanamo has held a total of just under 500 migrants since Trump announced the effort in January, and it has never held more than 200 at any one time. Many of the migrants flown there are believed to have been flown back to the U.S.”

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    $1 million

    A typical starter home now costs $1 million or more in more than 200 U.S. cities, according to a new report from Zillow. Five years ago, there were only 85 cities in 10 states where starter homes—defined as being in the lowest third in terms of home values—exceeded $1 million. Now the number is up to 233 cities in 25 states.

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    $1,000

    “The Trump administration says it is going to pay immigrants in the United States illegally who’ve returned to their home country voluntarily $1,000 as it pushes forward with its mass deportation agenda,” the AP reports.

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    57th

    The new World Press Freedom Index finds the U.S. has fallen to 57th out of 180 countries when it comes to overall freedom of the press.

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