WASHINGTON—Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) praised President Trump’s refusal to lower drug prices during a Sunday press conference, calling the moment a stark parallel to the moral courage of Louis Pasteur. "This is his Pasteur moment," Graham told reporters, his voice thick with emotion. "When Pasteur developed germ theory, he didn't bend to the immediate comfort of the masses. The president is similarly refusing the easy path of socialized price caps, understanding that a population's temporary financial agony is merely the growing pain of a robust free market."

Graham clarified that the rising number of Americans rationing insulin or forgoing chemotherapy should not be viewed as a crisis but as a controlled experiment in demand elasticity. "Greatness requires a sterile environment for economic growth, even if that means some non-essential bodies are cleared from the Petri dish of the labor force," he added, wiping a tear from his eye as he stared at a graph of pharmaceutical profit margins.