Thursday, May 28, 2020

“At this point, we have to assume that conflicts of interest are a prerequisite to working in the Trump administration,” said Margarida Jorge, national campaign director for Lower Drug Prices Now. “The Vice President’s Chief of Staff holds stock in the very prescription drug corporations receiving taxpayer funding for coronavirus treatments. As the House’s Select Coronavirus Committee investigates the long list of problems with the Trump administration’s coronavirus response, Mr. Short’s blatant conflicts of interest must be investigated as well. As chief of staff to the chair of the Coronavirus Taskforce, the public must have full confidence that decisions being made are in the best interests of our health and wellbeing, not Mr. Short’s own financial gain. At this point, we cannot.”

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Lower Drug Prices Now is a national coalition of nearly 60 social, racial and economic justice organizations with members in all fifty states. We are committed to transformative, systemic and bold reforms to ensure everyone has access to affordable medicines — no matter where they live, what they look like or how much money they have.