PLI Bulletin

Climate Laws, Drug Affordability, War Room and More

Posted on April 16, 2025

Prescription Drug Affordability Act: Maryland recently strengthened and broadened its landmark drug pricing law. The Prescription Drug Affordability Act, based on the Maryland model, establishes a Prescription Drug Affordability Board to review and establish fair drug prices.

Push back on the media’s normalizing of Trump: The media has been normalizing Trump for the past decade. They do this, in part, by inventing semi-rational policy explanations for irrational proposals. We should push back. For more, read the latest IdeaLog, our blog intended to raise eyebrows and engage minds.

Politics War Room podcast: After recommending The Young Turks in our last edition, here is a podcast from the old turks – James Carville and Al Hunt – raging every Thursday.

A fifth of Americans are on Medicaid and some have no idea: 72 million Americans get their health insurance through Medicaid. About three-fourths are enrolled through plans operated by private companies like UnitedHealth. So, many have no idea what the Republicans are about to do to them.

New executive order tees up challenges to state and local climate laws: Trump recently signed an executive order that directs the Attorney General to fight the enforcement of state and local climate laws, explains Columbia Law School’s Center for Climate Change Law.

Latest Progressive Agenda for States & Localities: The 2025 edition of our Progressive Agenda highlights 50 model bills and hyperlinks to more than 240 models.