US President Donald Trump announced a 100% tariff on imported generic pharmaceutical drugs on Tuesday. The tariff, which aims to bolster US pharmaceutical production, is set to go into effect in August 2028.
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At the same time the US military is having a high injury rate in Trump’s war of choice and the administration has approached congress for more military funding, which by the way is having some resistance from those communist democrats, Trump decides it’s time to raise tariffs on imported generic drugs, saying publicly it’s to lower drug prices. Uh huh. Trump’s telling congress, see what I can do?