Behind the scenes, major pharmaceutical companies and Trump-tied billionaires are furiously lobbying in opposite directions over proposed anti-China measures.
The administration is proposing a return to a 1990s-era policy that kept most drug ads off TV. That could dent the revenues of drugmakers and major networks.
President Trump signed a memorandum directing the F.D.A. to restrict advertising of prescription drugs on television, a move reflecting one of the top priorities of the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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