Senators push Trump administration move on high drug prices

Published May 15, 2017 5:17pm ET



A bipartisan group of senators is pleading with the Trump administration to use its existing authority to quickly lower high drug prices.

The three senators sent a letter to Trump’s budget director Mick Mulvaney amid reports that the administration is looking at executive orders or regulations to clamp down on high prices. Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and John McCain, R-Ariz., wrote the letter released Monday.

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