"Low INSULIN PRICING was gotten for millions of Americans by me, and the Trump Administration, not by Crooked Joe Biden. He had NOTHING to do with it." Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that he — and not President Joe Biden — deserves credit for lowering older Americans' prescription drug prices, specifically for insulin.
In a June 8 post on Truth Social, the former president's social platform, Trump wrote: "Low INSULIN PRICING was gotten for millions of Americans by me, and the Trump Administration, not by Crooked Joe Biden. He had NOTHING to do with it." Trump again claimed sole credit for lowering insulin prices during the June 27 presidential debate in Atlanta.
After Biden touted the $35 monthly out-of-pocket cap for Medicare patients mandated by the Inflation Reduction Act, Trump responded: "I'm the one that got the insulin down for the seniors. I took care of the seniors." It's not just the former president making such claims.
Fox News anchor John Roberts and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Republican, both have said the Biden administration is wrong to take credit for lowering insulin costs. Because drug prices and Medicare will likely be issues in the presidential campaign, we dug into the facts surrounding those claims.
Trump is correct that his administration enacted a program to lower insulin costs for some patients on Medicare. In July 2020, Trump signed an executive order establishing the "Part D Senior Savings Model," a temporary, vo.