Early moves by the president raise questions about what direction his second-term policy on drug costs will take.

A provision about insulin in the Inflation Reduction Act is conflated with a 2022 executive order by former President Joe Biden on lowering prescription drug costs in posts online that suggest President Donald Trump has canceled the $35 insulin co-pay cap for certain Medicare programs.

A squadron of senators is once again putting forward a proposal to boost price transparency in direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising. | A squadron of senators is once again putting forward a proposal to boost price transparency in direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising.

The U.S. government said on Wednesday it will aim for "greater transparency" in Medicare drug price negotiations under President Donald Trump's administration following criticism from the pharmaceutical industry for the Biden-era law.

President Donald Trump’s Day One executive order rescinding Biden-era Medicare and Medicaid price innovation programs signals sweeping changes to the drug and treatment pricing agency within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and perhaps a substantive shake-up in two of the largest federal social welfare programs.