President Donald Trump sent letters to drug company CEOs demanding that they lower prices.

The letters, which Trump posted to social media, say name-brand drug prices “are up to three times higher on average than anywhere else for identical medicines.”

“This unacceptable burden on hardworking American families ends with my Administration,” Trump said.

The letters were sent to 17 companies and are identical. They give companies 60 days to lower drug prices through most-favored-nation (MFN) pricing as explained in an executive order titled “Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients.”

The executive order, signed in May, orders companies to sell drugs in the United States for the same price charged in foreign countries, The Daily Wire previously reported. The order says companies charge Americans more for drugs because “drug manufacturers deeply discount their products to access foreign markets, and subsidize that decrease through enormously high prices in the United States.”

Both the order and the letters direct companies to charge MFN prices in America.

Some of the companies that received letters include AbbVie, Eli Lilly and Company, Johnson and Johnson, Novartis, and Pfizer.

The letters tell companies to provide their “full portfolios” of drugs at MFN prices for Medicaid patients, guarantee MFN prices for new drugs, negotiate with “freeloading” nations to “return increased revenues” to American patients, and allow direct purchasing of drugs at MFN prices.

“Moving forward, the only thing I will accept from drug manufacturers is a commitment that provides American families immediate relief from the vastly inflated drug prices and an end to the free ride of American innovation by European and other developed nations,” Trump said in the letters.

Companies have until September 29 to implement Trump’s terms.

In May, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said other nations should chip in for research and development. He said raising prices in other nations by 20% would drastically reduce costs in the U.S.

Trump signed another executive order earlier in May to reduce the regulatory burden on the domestic production of critical medicines.

“[If] you refuse to step up, we will deploy every tool in our arsenal to protect American families from continued abusive drug pricing practices,” Trump said.

The other companies that received letters were Amgen, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, EMD Serono, Genentech, Gilead Sciences, GSK, Merck, Novo Nordisk, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, and Sanofi.

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts tumbled on the Senate floor on Thursday after a desk she leaned on toppled under her weight.

Warren fell awkwardly backwards to sit on one of the Senate’s tiered platforms before being helped back to her feet. The fall appeared to cause quite a commotion, as over half a dozen senators rushed to help Warren after she fell.

GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas was the first to reach Warren’s side. Warren appeared to give him a few pats of appreciation for his assistance. Warren appears to be unharmed.

🚨WATCH: Elizabeth Warren FELL DOWN on the Senate floor and knocked over a table. pic.twitter.com/1vF9hOlsLO

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 31, 2025

Video of the fall quickly went viral online as users poked fun at Warren’s ungraceful display.

“This puts the Tip in Tippecanoe. (I’ll see myself out),” conservative sports commentator Clay Travis posted, a veiled reference to Warren’s past claims of Native American heritage.

Dave Rubin, host of “The Rubin Report,” posted that “Warren’s Indian name was Falls On A**.”

“Looks like Senator Warren has been hitting the peace pipe,” another user posted.

Warren’s claims to Native American ancestry trace back decades and she has faced criticism for using a thin genetic connection to Native Americans to identify as a Native American on applications. For instance, in 1986, Warren identified as a Native American on her registration card for the State Bar of Texas.

Seeking to tamp down criticism of her heritage claims in 2018, Warren released a blood test that said she had a Native American ancestor between six and 10 generations back. That would make Warren anywhere between 1/64th and 1/1,024 Native American.

Warren’s use of the blood test to silence her critics earned her a rebuke from the Cherokee Nation, of which Warren claimed to be.

The Cherokee Nation’s then-secretary of state, Chuck Hoskin Jr., said that the use of “a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong … dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is [proven].”

Warren later apologized for claiming to be Native American. In a town hall in December 2019, she said she “shouldn’t have done it. I am not a person of color; I am not a citizen of a tribe; and I have apologized for confusion I’ve caused on tribal citizenship, tribal sovereignty, and for any harm that I’ve caused.”