Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has attempted to explain President Donald Trump’s “mathematically impossible” claim that he is cutting drug prices by up to 600 percent after being grilled by a Fox News host.
During Trump’s Wednesday night address to the nation, where he pushed a number of mistruths and exaggerations, the president claimed he has negotiated with drug companies to cut prices by “as much as 400, 500 and even 600 percent.”