RFK Jr. Calls Out Big Pharma’s STRANGLEHOLD on the D.C. Swamp: ‘At Least One Lobbyist for EVERY Congressman, Senator, and Supreme Court Justice’

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday to celebrate a game-changing executive order that could finally break the pharmaceutical cartel’s stranglehold on American drug prices.

President Trump signed the “Most Favored Nation” executive order, a bold move that would peg U.S. prescription drug prices to the lower prices paid by countries in Europe and beyond—potentially slashing costs for American patients by up to 80 percent.

The move represents a direct assault on the globalist pharmaceutical lobby and the corrupt lawmakers they bankroll in Washington.

Joining Trump was RFK Jr., who blasted the pharmaceutical cartel and the corrupt political class that enables it.

Robert Kennedy Jr.:
“Thank you, Mr. President. This is an extraordinary day. This is an issue that I grew up with in the Democratic Party, and every major Democratic leader for 20 years has been making this promise to the American people. This was the fulcrum of Bernie Sanders’ runs for the presidency—that he was going to eliminate or correct this discrepancy between Europe and the United States.

But as it turns out, none of them were doing it. It’s one of those promises that politicians make to their constituents, knowing that they’ll never have to fulfill it. The reason they’ll never have to do it is because they know that Congress is controlled, in so many ways, by the pharmaceutical industry.

There’s at least one pharmaceutical lobbyist for every Congressman, every Senator on Capitol Hill, and every member of the Supreme Court—by some estimates, even more. The pharmaceutical industry itself spends three times what the next largest lobbying sector spends on lobbying. So this was an issue that people talked about, but nobody wanted to do anything, because it was radioactive. They knew you couldn’t get it past Congress.

We now have a President who is a man of his word—who has the courage. President Trump was taking money from the pharmaceutical industry too. I think they gave you $100 million. But he can’t be bought, unlike most of the politicians in this country. And he is standing here for the American people.

I don’t know why there are writers like Elizabeth Warren or Robert Reich who are saying that President Trump is on the side of the oligarchs. There has never been a President more willing to stand up to the oligarchs than President Donald Trump.

I’m very, very proud of you, Mr. President, for your courage. I’ll say—because I don’t want to be crude—your intestinal fortitude, your stiff spine, and your willingness to stand up for the American people.

We have 4.2% of the world’s population. Our country represents 75% of the revenues for pharmaceutical companies. We spend in our country $1,126 per capita on drugs. In Britain, they spend about $240. They spend one-fifth of what we do. And this is true across Europe.

And the drug companies—even the European ones—if you ask them, it made no sense what they were saying: that America has to pay for this innovation.

It’s not going to happen. What President Trump is saying to our European partners is: you’ve got to raise the amount you’re paying for those drugs and pay your share of the innovation. The United States is no longer subsidizing that.

If the Europeans raise the price of their drugs by just 20%, that is $10 trillion that can be spent on innovation. The health of all people across the globe is going to improve because we’re going to have better products.

I’m just so grateful to be here today. I never thought this would happen in my lifetime. I have a couple of kids who are Democrats—big Bernie Sanders fans. When I told them this was going to happen, they had tears in their eyes because they thought, “This is never going to happen in our lifetime.”

We finally have a President who’s willing to stand up for the American people.”

WATCH:

BOOM! RFK Jr. just called out EVERY elected official for being beholden to the Big Pharma industry.

“Congress is controlled, in so many ways, by the pharmaceutical industry.”

“There’s at least one pharmaceutical lobbyist for every Congressman, every Senator on Capitol Hill,… pic.twitter.com/zHrWvpCl2O

— Gunther Eagleman (@GuntherEagleman) May 12, 2025

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