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  Congress questioned HHS Secretary Kennedy this week on a whole bunch of issues: Vaccine misinformation, health care cuts, and cancer research cuts. I had the chance to ask RFK Jr. about TrumpRx and these “massive” deals for patients that he’s been boasting about. Right after Trump and the Republicans cut health care for millions of families, the president launched his TrumpRx website as the answer for Americans who were worried about health care costs. The website invites patients to “find the world's lowest prices on prescription drugs.” He claimed that TrumpRx has reduced drug prices by as much as  600%. 600%. In that instance, drug companies would be paying us to take their drugs, which doesn’t make any sense. Health Secretary Kennedy explained that President Trump has a “different way of calculating percentages” and that there’s “two ways” of calculating percentages — saying “if you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction.” What! So we’re just ...

  Wednesday, March 18, 2026 ■ Today's Top News  'Cracks Are Beginning to Show': Even 79% of Trump Voters Want Quick End to Iran War “While Trump voters by and large stand behind Trump, they overwhelmingly want him to declare an end to the war." By Julia Conley War hawks such as Sen.  Lindsey Graham  are pushing President  Donald Trump  to keep escalating the war he is waging against Iran, but a new poll of the president’s base—those who voted for him in 2024, when he campaigned on “ no new wars ”—found that doing so would likely anger the  steadily shrinking faction  of Americans who have thus far continued to support him. The poll, commissioned by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and The American Conservative,  found  that 79% of those who voted for Trump in 2024 want a swift end to the US and Israel’s war in Iran, which began on February 28 when the president abruptly ended talks regarding Iran’s nuclear program and join...