Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings will meet with President Trump on Wednesday to discuss prescription drug prices, just over two weeks after the president accused him of canceling a previously scheduled sit-down due to partisan politics.
“The president promise[d] — both during the campaign and after — that he would support efforts to stem the skyrocketing prices of prescription drugs, so I am looking forward to discussing ideas he said he supports,” Cummings said in a statement.
The meeting at the White House will also include Congressman Peter Welch, D-Vt., who serves on the House Oversight Committee with Cummings, and Johns Hopkins Hospital president Dr. Redonda Miller.
A meeting between Trump and Cummings that was supposed to take place last month was initially canceled after the congressman’s office claimed he had a scheduling conflict. Trump later said that Cummings expressed to him that a meeting “might be bad for me politically.”
“He was probably told by [Senate Minority Leader Chuck] Schumer — or some other lightweight — ‘Don’t meet with Trump. It’s bad politics,'” the president said during a press conference on Feb. 16.
“I have no idea why President Trump would make up a story about me like he did today,” Cummings responded at the time, adding that Schumer “never told me to skip a meeting with the president.”
