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MOMENTS AGO: “TrumpRx” Goes Live — Historians Compare It to FDR’s ‘Court Packing’… But with a Pharma Twist

In a move that has left political historians doing double-takes, President Trump just announced “TrumpRx,” a government-backed pharmaceutical initiative that promises to “negotiate like a real estate mogul” for American drug prices.

But historians aren’t debating the economics—they’re seeing a ghost from 1937.

“This is the closest we’ve seen to FDR’s ‘Court Packing’ scheme since the New Deal—except the Court is Big Pharma,” says Dr. Elena Voss, presidential historian at Georgetown. “FDR tried to change the rules when the Supreme Court blocked his agenda. Trump is trying to change the market by creating a direct competitor to the industry that’s been blocking his ‘most favored nation’ pricing since 2020.”

The parallel: FDR’s Judicial Procedures Reform Bill (1937) sought to add friendly justices to the bench after the court struck down his policies. Trump’s TrumpRx — announced alongside an executive order labeling “collusion between pharmacy benefit managers and insurers” as an “unconstitutional cartel” — effectively nationalizes a supply chain bypass.

“It’s 1937 meets 1984,” adds Voss. “One man, one megaphone, one industry in the crosshairs. The difference? FDR needed Congress. Trump just needed an E.O. and a TikTok doctor.”

Wall Street is reeling. PhRMA stock futures are down 12% in pre-market. The White House says “the history books will remember which side was right.” Critics call it “presidential overreach dressed as a rebate.”

**— Is this the birth of a new political precedent, or a classic ‘Trumpian’ bluff