US Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday said that President Donald Trump took "historic" action to "lower" prescription drug prices, but the democrats did "nothing to help them."

"Democrats say that they care a lot about lowering health care costs. And yet, when the president took historic action to work with the drug companies to lower prescription drug prices, the Democrats did nothing to help us... What they have done instead is to shut down the government because we won't give billions of dollars to health care funding for illegal aliens...," Vance told reporters at White House.

He also blamed the Chuck Schumer AOC wing of the Democratic Party for the shutdown, despite the "overwhelming majority" of congressional Republicans and a few moderate Democrats supporting "opening the govern

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