What Trump Said

“This year, for the first time in 50 years, drug prices went down.”

This is misleading.

Multiple analyses have shown that drug prices are still increasing, albeit at a slower pace than in previous years.

An Associated Press analysis found that from January to July 2018, drug companies raised prices on more than 4,400 products, with a median increase of 5.2 percent in June and July 2018. That was lower than the median increase of 8 percent for the same period in 2017. Rx Savings Solutions, a company that advises employers on how to reduce drug costs, found that drug companies increased prices on more than 2,800 medicines in the first quarter of 2019. The average increase was 8.6 percent, compared with 11.3 percent in the same period last year.

The White House pointed PolitiFact to a decrease in the consumer price index for prescription drugs as evidence for a similar claim made by Mick Mulvaney, President Trump’s acting chief of staff. But the head of Rx Savings Solutions noted in an interview with PolitiFact that the index does not include high-priced drugs sold through mail order. The index also showed declines in several months in recent years before Donald J. Trump took office — contradicting his claim that prices had fallen for the first time in five decades.

What Trump Said

“We will have over 400 miles of wall built by the end of next year.”

This is exaggerated.

Mr. Trump is once again mixing projects to replace existing barriers with construction of entirely new sectors of a wall along the southwestern border — and inflating the mileage.