President Joe Biden is in town to talk to Democratic leaders and his campaign promise to lower prescription drug costs.

President Joe Biden is expected to speak at the UNLV College of Hospitality on Wednesday about his administration's efforts to reduce prescription drug costs for Americans.

President Joe Biden was spending the night in Las Vegas on Tuesday after attending a private fundraiser. The president arrived at Harry Reid International Airport on Air Force One around 6:15 p.m. A motorcade then escorted him to a private home in the Tournament Hill section of Summerlin

President Joe Biden is expected to speak at the UNLV College of Hospitality on Wednesday about his administration’s efforts to lower prescription drug costs for Americans.

North Las Vegas veteran Gerald Mayes says psilocybin — hallucinogenic fungi also known as “magic mushrooms” — helped him with his post-traumatic stress disorder and alcoholism.

North Las Vegas veteran Gerald Mayes says psilocybin — hallucinogenic fungi also known as “magic mushrooms” — helped him with his post-traumatic stress disorder and alcoholism.

Biden, speaking before a crowd of doctors and nurses at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, vowed to protect Medicare and Social Security, while touting his administration’s successful efforts to press pharmaceutical companies to lower the costs of insulin for Americans suffering from diabetes.

From the University of Nevada, Las Vegas he planned to put the issue of reducing drug costs at the center of his politics and political agenda.

“It’s not just your health,” Biden said in the lobby of UNLV’s William F. Harrah College of Hospitality. “It’s about your dignity. It’s about your security. That’s why my administration is focused intensely, intensely in getting more people affordable health care.”