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Trump's 200% Generic Drug Tariff, Taylor Farms Meets the White House Before FDA Recall, and Jay-Z Doubles Down · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: President Trump says his latest tariff plan is about to
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  Speaker 1: bring jobs back to America, but what could it mean
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  Speaker 1: for the medications millions of Americans depend on.
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  Speaker 2: By the time that two hundred percent tariff would, in
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  Speaker 2: theory be coming through, his administration will not be empower
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  Speaker 2: anymore at that point.
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  Speaker 1: And Taylor Farm's executives met at the White House just
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  Speaker 1: one day before a major let us recall. Now lawmakers
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  Speaker 1: want to know exactly what happened behind closed doors.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think this is fully under then pol yet,
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  Speaker 3: but CDC really didn't seem to be as involved as
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  Speaker 3: the agency normally would be.
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  Speaker 1: Memi Brown. This is front page. Here are the day's
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  Speaker 1: biggest stories. Stay with me. The medications millions of Americans
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  Speaker 1: rely on every day could eventually cost more under a
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  Speaker 1: new tariff plan from President Trump. The President says imported
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  Speaker 1: generic drugs will remain terror free for the next two
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  Speaker 1: years while manufacturers have time to move production to the
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  Speaker 1: United States. After that, the terrors would jump to one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent in twenty twenty eight and two hundred percent
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty nine. Here is Naomi Creasy of Bloomberg Radio.
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  Speaker 2: The timing is interesting. Some analysts have noted that by
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  Speaker 2: the time the two hundred percent tariff would in theory
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  Speaker 2: be coming through, you know, his administration will not be
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  Speaker 2: empower anymore at that point, and so it would really
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  Speaker 2: be up to the next administration. We have seen some
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  Speaker 2: commentators suggesting that, you know, this would be rolled back
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  Speaker 2: potentially by another administration. It is. You know, there are
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  Speaker 2: many challenges associated with this for the generic drug industry,
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  Speaker 2: partly just because you know, unlike makers have branded drugs,
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  Speaker 2: generic drug makers actually don't produce very much in the US.
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  Speaker 2: And that's because the US is such a low cost
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  Speaker 2: market for generic drugs.
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  Speaker 1: Nine out of every ten prescriptions filled in the US
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  Speaker 1: are generic drugs. That includes medications for blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol, infection, anxiety,
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  Speaker 1: and even depression. Today, many of those prescriptions cost patients
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  Speaker 1: just a few dollars a month because they're made overseas,
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  Speaker 1: where production is less expensive. President Trump says the terrors
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  Speaker 1: are designed to encourage companies to manufacture those drugs in
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  Speaker 1: the United States instead, but health economists warn that if
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  Speaker 1: companies don't move production in time, those added cost of
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  Speaker 1: importing those medications could eventually show up at the pharmacy counter.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly how much consumers would pay is still unknown, and
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  Speaker 1: questions are growing to about what happened behind closed doors
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  Speaker 1: before the FDA announced a major lettuce recall. New reporting
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  Speaker 1: shows executives from Taylor Farms met with the White House
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  Speaker 1: and FDA officials just one day before the agency announced
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  Speaker 1: the voluntary recall tied to the ongoing cyclosporia outbreak. Taylor
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  Speaker 1: Farms is one of the companies at the center of
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  Speaker 1: the investigation. Now, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee want
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  Speaker 1: to know what was discussed during those meetings. Lawmakers are
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  Speaker 1: requesting records and communication between the company and the Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration to determine whether anyone attempted to influence the government's response.
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  Speaker 1: We do have the outbreak under control.
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  Speaker 2: We have done extensive forensics epid email at call FORENSI,
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  Speaker 2: and we've identified the.
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  Speaker 1: The source of the outbreak, and.
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  Speaker 2: The companies that have involved.
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  Speaker 1: Have implementatory The original recall covered shredded iceberg is and
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  Speaker 1: market side salads sold at Walmart, along with let Is
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  Speaker 1: distributed to restaurants and other food service companies in twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven states. But even as federal officials said that outbreak
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  Speaker 1: was under control, the CDC is now investigating a separate
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  Speaker 1: cycle sploria outbreak in multiple states. Investigators have not yet
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  Speaker 1: identified the source of that new outbreak. Former FDA Commissioner
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  Speaker 1: doctor Scott Gottlie with more.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think this is fully under control yet. CDC
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  Speaker 3: really didn't seem to be as involved as the agency
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  Speaker 3: normally would be. We don't know what yet. That led
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  Speaker 3: to a lot of fields, probably getting contaminated, some rows,
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  Speaker 3: so it got onto those fields, Maybe was used in irrigation,
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  Speaker 3: probably also climate related.
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  Speaker 1: The White House is pushing back, calling the allegations fake
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