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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.<\/p>\n
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Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nRead more<\/span><\/svg><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nDonald Trump stated on Thursday that the chief executive of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly informed him of plans to construct six new plants in the United States. <\/p>\n
Speaking during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Trump praised the executive, saying, “I spoke with the head of Eli Lilly, who’s a fantastic guy, a star actually, he’s a star, very smart, and he told me he’s building six plants in the United States, big ones.”<\/p>\n
Last year, Eli Lilly had announced intentions to invest at least $2.7 billion into building four U.S. facilities, aiming to boost production and strengthen medical supply chains. <\/p>\n
The company has since detailed plans for three of these sites, located in Alabama, Virginia, and Texas. <\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Lilly clarified that the company has, in fact, announced plans for nine new manufacturing sites across the US since 2020, which includes the three recently detailed.<\/p>\n
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Last year, Eli Lilly had announced intentions to invest at least $2.7 billion into building four U.S. facilities (Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nIn November, Trump announced his administration had reached a deal with two drug makers to lower prices of popular GLP-1 diabetes medications for Americans on Medicare and Medicaid as well as for those who purchase the drugs on the administration\u2019s forthcoming TrumpRx website.<\/p>\n
Speaking in the Oval Office at the time, Trump said he was \u201cthrilled\u201d to announce \u201ctremendous cuts\u201d and \u201cdrastic discounts\u201d for the \u201cvery effective drugs,\u201d which he referred to as \u201cthe fat drugs\u201d and remarked that he\u2019d \u201cnever heard anything bad\u201d about the wildly popular medications.<\/p>\n
Trump said GLP-1 makers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk were \u201cjoining the phenomenal list\u201d of drug companies that have capitulated to his administration\u2019s demand that they offer their products on a \u201cmost-favored nation\u201d pricing plan, bringing the cost Americans pay for their drugs down to a level on par with countries that pay lower prices through their single-payer health care systems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story. The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it. Your support makes all the difference. Read more Donald Trump stated on Thursday that the chief executive of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly informed him of plans to construct six new plants in the United States. Speaking during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Trump praised the executive, saying, “I spoke with the head of Eli Lilly, who’s a fantastic guy, a star actually, he’s a star, very smart, and he told me he’s building six plants in the United States, big ones.” Last year, Eli Lilly had announced intentions to invest at least $2.7 billion into building four U.S. facilities, aiming to boost production and strengthen medical supply chains. The company has since detailed plans for three of these sites, located in Alabama, Virginia, and Texas. A spokesperson for Lilly clarified that the company has, in fact, announced plans for nine new manufacturing sites across the US since 2020, which includes the three recently detailed. Last year, Eli Lilly had announced intentions to invest at least $2.7 billion into building four U.S. fac…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}