jerrymahoney

S&P still down 500 or about 10% from where it was mid-FEB 2025.

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Announces Actions to Lower Prescription Drug Prices The White House April 15, 2025 LOWERING PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICES: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to expand on the historic efforts of his first term to lower prescription drug prices. The Order directs the Department of Health and Human Services to take steps to significantly reduce drug prices for American patients. https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-announces-actions-to-lower-prescription-drug-prices/ ******************** Mass layoffs begin at HHS, some employees turned away after showing up to work The cuts are expected to have far-reaching impacts on public health April 2, 2025, 6:50 AM The layoffs are expected to impact 3,500 employees at the Food and Drug Administration and 2,400 employees from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- nearly one-fifth of the workforce at both public health divisions, which fall under HHS. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mass-layoffs-begin-hhs-reaching-impacts-public-health/story

Everything will be done properly. No worries. Especially when Ms. Leavitt will say so. The FDA will be monitoring the purchase of all drugs acquired ex-USA -- with the few employees it has left.

No but the authenticity and expiration date of drugs sourced ex-USA will be.

Cheap drugs available on Soi 6.

Note from that Reuters article: This is not the first time President Trump has tried to tie drug prices to what other countries pay. During Trump's first term, a court blocked a proposed international reference pricing program.

Maybe the only bad thing is that he isn't 'former'.

If you want to talk about the mass firings by the Trump admin being challenged in court, you can expect to hear from some: Firings huh? Well, what about Truman firing Gen MacArthur, where were you then, HUH?

Thanks. Even as a small kid, you knew this was a special place.

This was in my neighborhood -- I walked past it every day going to grade school. https://www.nps.gov/morr/learn/historyculture/ford-mansion-washington-s-headquarters.htm

Trump doesn't have to say anything about Pope Leo -- he can let Laura Loomer do it.

Here's how I think of the JAN6 dustup: Upon Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2025, he pardoned all but 14 of about 1,270 convicted rioters. DC Federal Judges who worked long hours on these cases -- both of Repub and Dem appointments -- were not happy. And these are the DC federal judges that Trump will have to deal for most of the next 4 years.

I posted one of these topics that Skype had 300 million customers in 2016 and only 30 million now. So I guess they don't care where those 30 million have gone. And Teams is now 300 million customers most likely corporate/business not personal.

never mind

So would DoD Sec. Hegseth kicked out Alan Turing?