Peter Marocco's turbulent tenure during the first Trump administration sheds light on his current efforts to dismantle the American foreign aid system from the inside out.
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Now one of the most powerful people in the U.S. government, Peter Marocco’s turbulent tenure during the first Trump administration sheds light on his current efforts to dismantle the American foreign aid system from the inside out.
“Drug companies charge whatever they think they can get away with. And every time the benchmark moves up, they think, ‘Well, we can get away with more.”
— David Mitchell, the founder of Patients For Affordable Drugs, on the seven-figure costs of many gene therapies. Reporter Robin Fields investigated the factors that make such therapies so expensive in “What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing.”
More than 300 career employees at the Environmental Protection Agency have left their jobs. Those who remain face a painful decision: resign or work for an administration that plans to radically reshape the EPA while reversing environmental protections.
