A sweeping executive order signed last week will target everything from airline baggage fees to soaring prescription drug prices.

Acosta's deputy, Patrick Pizzella, will become acting secretary of the Labor Department.

"I'd like a lawsuit to be brought against these companies that are really sending opioids at a level -- it shouldn't be happening," Trump said during a Cabinet meeting.

“I think people are going to start to see for the first time ever in this country a major drop in the cost of prescription drugs,” Trump said.

The husband of a sister of Sec. of Transportation Elaine Chao might lead the PBGC, the agency that pays worker pensions when the plans go bust.

The president's plan calls for the Justice Department to seek the death penalty against drug traffickers "where appropriate under current law."

Proposals include making sure seniors in Medicare benefit from discounts that middlemen negotiate with drugmakers, establishing a spending cap on out-of-pocket prescription costs, and potentially making generic drugs free for low-income seniors.

President Donald Trump gave his blessing to a bipartisan health-care bill to pay the same insurance subsidies that the president said hed halt last week, according to a Republican senator working on the package.