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A Deal on Drug Prices Undone by White House Insistence on ‘Trump Cards’

FILE -- White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows listens as President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after walking off Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Sept. 3, 2020. The White House and the pharmaceutical industry were nearing accord on a major deal to lower drug prices when the administration demanded that $100 cash cards be sent to millions of seniors before the election — and the industry balked. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times)