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How the drug industry keeps winning in Washington

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How the drug industry keeps winning

What if I told you the Sen. Thom Tillis campaign account was graced with nearly $20,000 in personal donations from drug industry CEOs and other top industry brass on Valentine’s Day? You’d think it was some cheesy made-for-TV movie about D.C.’s power elite, right? Well, it’s not: It’s just one of the many salacious details Lev and I dug up while reporting a big new story about how, despite all the inflammatory rhetoric, the drug industry

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