President Trump is vowing to join forces with Democrats to grant the federal government more power when it comes to negotiating drug prices, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said Wednesday after meeting with the president.

Such a push sets the stage for a clash between Trump and Republicans on Capitol Hill, who have long opposed the Democrats’ efforts to allow Medicare to haggle directly with pharmaceutical companies for lower prescription drug prices — a power barred under current law.

But Cummings, after sitting down with Trump for roughly an hour in the White House, said the president not only gave his enthusiastic support for Medicare negotiation, he’s also pushing to grant the federal government even broader negotiating powers.

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“The president was clearly very much aware what was going on. He understood the issue very well,” Cummings told reporters afterwards. “And he felt it was important that we address this issue head-on.”

“We told him that he’s going to have a difficult time with his own party, that was going to be the most difficult thing, and he said he really didn’t care,” Cummings said. “He said that that [this was] something very important to him … he agreed that the people in the Rust Belt, just like the people in Baltimore, need relief."

“He felt that they have been treated very unfairly by the drug companies and he said that it was something that he really wants to do,” Cummings added. “He said that he would join us in pushing a bill through.”