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Transcript: President Trump Remarks at Maternal Healthcare Event

Editor’s Notes: On May 11, 2026, President Trump hosts a landmark Maternal Healthcare Event at the White House to announce groundbreaking initiatives aimed at supporting American families and mothers. Alongside leaders like Senator Katie Britt and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the President unveils new fertility benefit options for employees and the launch of Moms.gov, a comprehensive resource for prenatal and postpartum care. The event highlights the success of the Trump RX program in drastically lowering prescription drug costs while outlining strategic investments in rural healthcare and childcare reform. The event concludes with the President addressing critical national security updates and international relations regarding Iran.

TRANSCRIPT:

President Trump Announces New Fertility Benefit Option

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, thank you very much everybody. This is very important. A lot of important things happening in our country right now, but we’re doing very well. Most health care plans do not cover these benefits, but today I’m pleased to announce that the Department of Labor is issuing a new rule to formally create a fertility benefit option for employers that can be offered to all employees outside of their normal health insurance plans.

It’s a big deal. They were not properly taken care of. Katie Britt knows that better than anybody else, who called me and said, I must say, I shouldn’t admit this, but the first time I really heard about the fertility was through Katie. She said, “Sir, we have to do something,” and I’m a quick study, so I learned everything there is to learn in about three or four minutes, and I became the father of fertility.

Now it just made a lot of sense to me. She explained it well, and I hope you tell that story, what happened to you, that you were virtually attacked with a bad ruling from a court. They gave a very bad ruling, as you remember, in Alabama. We had to step down and save the day and make sure that we had nationwide access to IVF, and it’s done so much since then, and we are so grateful. We had something passed within two days after that, so it’s really pretty amazing. You don’t see that happen very often.

Fertility Coverage as a Supplemental Benefit

But this will be a supplemental option available to those who need it, much like vision or dental insurance, so we’re bringing it right down into the mainstream. By offering coverage for care at every step, the fertility journey is a very interesting one, very complex. It was, and we’re making it much simpler. This will hopefully reduce the number of couples who ultimately need to resort to IVF because challenges can be identified and addressed very early in the process.

This is a new benefit. This is a benefit that so many people have called me about. I mean, it’s incredible. Oz and Bobby, I can tell you, we speak about it a lot. So many people have called me about, we have to do this. They’ve been waiting for it for a long time. But this is a new benefit or an option that will be a major help for millions of American moms that will result in more beautiful American babies. We like that.

Most Favored Nation Agreements and Drug Price Reductions

To further reduce the cost of fertility care, my administration has negotiated unprecedented most favored nation agreements with all of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies and nations. You think that was easy? That was not easy. The nations in particular, I’d say, and I challenged them with tariffs. “You don’t want to give us what you want. I’m putting tariffs on your nation.” “Sir, we’ll give it to you immediately.” Actually, you think Biden could do that? I don’t think so. Nor did he try, Bobby, right? They didn’t even try. They never tried anything.

One drug commonly used in IVF has gone from, as an example, nine hundred and sixty six dollars to one hundred and sixty eight dollars, a difference of five hundred percent. This is the most incredible thing. It’s not talked about by the fake news. It’s sad because it’s the biggest thing to happen. I think we’re getting drug prices, prescription drug prices down by four or five hundred percent or depending on the way you want to phrase the question. You could say four or five, six hundred percent. And you could also say 80 percent, 70 percent, et cetera. It all depends on the way you phrase the question. I like the five hundred better.

And since we launched that website just a few months ago, it’s called TrumpRx.gov. It’s through the roof. Is that a correct statement? And if I were you, Tom, that was your idea to call TrumpRx.

TOM: That wasn’t my — the president did not propose that thing. But everyone else thought it was a great idea.

Most Favored Nation Drug Pricing

It is working spectacularly well, incredibly effective at so many things that there’s not an American around buying medication. You should not check TrumpRx.gov.

First, we propose, Mr. President is going to save us six hundred billion dollars over the next decade because of savings we can achieve from the most favored nation drug pricing that Secretary Kennedy organized.

TRUMP: And the media doesn’t write about it. If a Democrat proposed it, it would be front page news every day for the rest of your life. The media, they don’t want to write about it.

Think of it. We’re reducing drug prices by 500, 600 percent or 80 percent or 75 percent. Anyway, it’s all about the phrasing of the question. And the media doesn’t write about it. It’s amazing. It’s so sad. It’s so biased.

And that’s why the media, their approval rating went down just today. Twelve percent. You’re twelve percent. That’s why I got elected with 97 percent bad stories. I won in a landslide because you have no credibility.