FOULKES PERSONALLY DONATED TO MITCH MCCONNELL,³ WHO:

Put three right-wing judges on the Supreme Court who take away a woman's right to choose.

Helped pass Trump's massive tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy, which went to billionaires and millionaires, like Foulkes herself.

Voted to acquit Trump after he inspired the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.

FOULKES DONATED $42,000 TO HOME DEPOT'S PAC THAT BACKS ANTI-CHOICE INITIATIVES:

Foulkes made over $2.6 million as a Director of Home Depot from 2013 to 2021.⁴ During that time, she directly contributed over $40,000 to Home Depot’s Political Action Committee, which gave over $7 million to anti-abortion initiatives from 2016 to 2020.⁵

Home Depot has enabled Trump’s dangerous and deadly immigration raids across the country. At least one immigration raid outside a Home Depot led to a man being killed.⁶

Home Depot has given predominantly to Republican congressional candidates and the national Republican Party’s congressional campaign.⁷

raised the price of insulin, which 30,000 rhode islanders depend on to survive.¹

The FTC investigated and took action against CVS Caremark for artificially inflating insulin prices from 1999 to 2017, contributing to up to 1200% percent price increases of the life-saving medicine. ^{2 3}

pushed to cut $90 million from Rhode Island Medicaid.

Helena Foulkes, as part of the Reinventing Medicaid Working Group, recommended cutting $90 million from Rhode Island's Medicaid program, largely at the expense of our hospitals. ^{4 5}

merged CVS with insurance giant Aetna, which kicked people off healthcare, driving up prices. ⁶

In 2017, Aetna stopped selling health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, kicking 900,000 people off their healthcare ⁷ and raising insurance premiums by 21%. ⁸

“WHAT I DID THROUGH THE OPIOID CRISIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF LEADERSHIP.”

In 2024, the Department of Justice, under President Biden, filed a lawsuit against CVS for its role in fueling the opioid crisis from 2013-2024, which included Foulkes' time as President of CVS.

The DOJ accused CVS of ‘unlawfully dispensing massive quantities of opioids and other controlled substances to fuel its own profits at the expense of public health and safety."²

“We confronted this crisis head-on”

Prosecutors say CVS executives, like Foulkes, repeatedly refused to implement available procedures to prevent or diminish illegal dispensing because they did not want to reduce sales...³

"A lot of people missed this, and I do wish we'd all found it sooner."

Prosecutors say CVS executives, like Foulkes, knew that they had the ability to slow, stop—or, by contrast, encourage—the stream of invalid prescriptions by their policies...⁴

"As soon as we saw what was going on, we took action, I took action”

Prosecutors say year after year, CVS executives like Foulkes made decisions to choose profits over legal compliance and prioritized volume and speed over care and safety, ignoring desperate pleas from their own pharmacists for help...⁵

Between October 17, 2013 and 2024, CVS pharmacists were ordered to knowingly fill at least thousands of unlawful prescriptions for controlled substances. CVS filled these prescriptions knowing that the...prescriptions...were issued by prescribers CVS knew to be engaged in pill mill practices...⁶

“I put particular blame on PUrdue Pharma”

But under Foulkes' leadership, CVS accepted $173 million in “secret payments” from Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin, to keep opioids flowing.⁷