Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a Senate Finance Committee hearing on 22 April 2026 that President Donald Trump uses a 'different way' of calculating drug price reductions, a defence that drew immediate ridicule from mathematicians and Democratic senators.
The testimony came as Kennedy faced questioning from Senator Elizabeth Warren over the administration's repeated assertion that its TrumpRx drug pricing programme has slashed prescription costs by as much as 600 per cent. Kennedy's attempt to justify the figure, by suggesting the president calculates percentages through an unconventional method, has since gone viral.
