PolitiFact rates RFK Jr.'s percentage decrease claim as 'Pants on Fire'

5 articles · Updated · PBS NewsHour · Apr 24

During an April 22 Senate Finance Committee hearing, RFK Jr. claimed reducing a $600 drug to $10 is a 600% decrease, echoing President Trump's prior statements.
Mathematics experts clarified that such a reduction actually represents a 98.3% decrease, and reductions over 100% are impossible unless sellers pay consumers.
PolitiFact emphasized that there is only one correct way to calculate percentage change, rejecting both Kennedy's and Trump's methods as mathematically invalid.

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