President Donald Trump’s claims about prescription drug prices make no mathematical sense. But his team – including Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week – keeps straining to defend them.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said, "If you have a $600 drug and reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction." Kennedy told Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., that U.S.

Donald Trump and his health secretary believe they have reinvented math—and it just so happens that their “different way of calculating” gives the president a win. During a healthcare affordability ...

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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 ...

In case you didn't know, Trump has been bragging about lowering prescription drug prices by mathematically impossible margins for a while now. The Washington Post / Getty Images Remember this one?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% ...

‘President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages’: RFK Jr claims basic math rules don’t apply to White House - Shooting at the White House correspondents' dinner: How the event unfolded ...

Photo Credit: Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Rare Impact Fund (L); Heather Diehl/Getty Images (M); Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (R) In his latest monologue, veteran talk show host Jimmy Kimmel ...