Former Vice President Mike Pence's group, Advancing American Freedom, is criticizing President Donald Trump's drug price policy. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
It ended with a call to action: "Tell Congress to say ‘no’ to China by saying ‘no’ to MFN price controls."
And while pressuring the GOP majority on Capitol Hill is the campaign's main goal, it appears to be a response to Trump rolling out such a policy several times in recent months.
Earlier this month, Trump unveiled agreements between the federal government and two top drug companies aimed at lowering the cost of popular weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, among others.
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The partnership with Eli Lilly & Co. and Novo Nordisk will make prices for drugs aimed at helping Americans with obesity, diabetes and heart disease fall by hundreds of dollars, Trump said.
It would also lower prices for Medicare and Medicaid patients who rely on such drugs.
Three injectable prescription weight loss medicines — Ozempic, Victoza and Wegovy. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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It's not the first time this year that Pence's group has broken from Trump. AAF also criticized Trump's use of tariffs as well as his more recent call to end the filibuster in the Senate.
The White House pushed back on AAF's characterization when reached by Fox News Digital.
"Anyone calling President Trump’s historic drug pricing deals ‘price controls’ is either too stupid or dishonest to be taken seriously. Despite being just four percent of the world’s population, Americans have covered nearly 75 percent of global pharmaceutical research costs by paying several times more for drugs than our peers in other wealthy countries pay," White House spokesman Kush Desai told Fox News Digital.
"President Trump’s deals are equalizing this burden by making other wealthy countries shoulder their fair share for the pharmaceutical innovation that’s saving lives — thereby restoring the free market principles that Mike Pence supposedly support."
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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