Critics Warn TrumpRx Will Further Enrich Big Pharma, Not Reduce Drug Prices

US President Donald Trump on Thursday launched a website, branded with his name, in a purported effort to help patients buy prescription drugs at lower prices. But experts, watchdog groups, and Democratic lawmakers said TrumpRx will likely do little for consumers — or for the broader goal of bringing down exorbitant medicine costs — while further enriching Big Pharma and potentially lining…
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Bessent Confirms Taxpayers Would Be Paying Trump If He Wins $10B Lawsuit

If President Donald Trump is successful in his lawsuit to sue the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns, U.S. taxpayers will be footing the bill, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed on Thursday. In a hearing by the Senate Banking Committee, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Arizona) asked, “let’s say, for some reason, he actually wins that lawsuit…
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Trump Sues the IRS and Treasury for $10 Billion Over Tax Return Leak

President Donald Trump has sued the US Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service for $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns during his first term in the White House, when the president broke with decades of tradition by refusing to voluntarily divulge the records. The lawsuit — joined by Trump’s two eldest sons and his family business, the Trump Organization — was revealed…
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First US Sale of Seized Venezuelan Oil Goes to Company of Trump Megadonor

The first US sale of Venezuelan oil since the Trump administration illegally attacked the South American country earlier this month went to the company of a trader who donated millions to President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign. The roughly $250 million sale of Venezuelan crude went to Vitol, a Geneva-based energy and commodity trading firm whose US arm is headquartered in Houston.
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GOP Goes All-Out to Prevent Accountability for Agent Who Shot Renee Nicole Good

Minnesota officials said Thursday that the Trump administration has barred them from assisting in the investigation into an ICE agent’s killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, marking an extreme step in the GOP’s seeming all-out efforts to prevent accountability for the shooter. The head of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), the state’s investigations agency…
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Democrat Moves to Impeach Noem After ICE Killing: “A Disgrace to Our Democracy”

A House Democrat has announced that she is moving to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Rep. Robin Kelly of Illinois said on Wednesday that she is planning to introduce articles of impeachment against Noem, who she calls “a disgrace to our democracy.
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