President Trump recently launched TrumpRx, a website that purports to offer families significant cost savings on their prescription drugs. In reality, many of the brand-name drugs listed on TrumpRx have significantly cheaper generic alternatives, which are excluded from TrumpRx. This means that TrumpRx steers families to pay more to Big Pharma when they could be getting the same medication at a much lower price.

The Joint Economic Committee – Minority analyzed the prices of several common drugs on both the TrumpRx site and on the prescription drug comparison site GoodRx. This new Committee analysis finds that TrumpRx could result in families paying significantly more in higher prescription costs to Big Pharma compared to cheaper generic alternatives.

• For example, if in one family a parent gets treatment for high cholesterol and their child gets treated for seizures, over the course of 2026 this family would pay $2,142 more if they use TrumpRx versus generic drug alternatives.

• For another family where one adult gets treatment for depression while the other receives treatment for menopause symptoms, over the course of 2026 this family would pay $2,493 more if they use TrumpRx versus generic drug alternatives.