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Tom Price to halt taxpayer-funded travel on private jets
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Sep 23, 2017 11:05pm |
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| Author | Dan Diamond |
| News Date | Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price told Fox News on Saturday that he’ll stop his taxpayer-funded travel on private jets, pending a formal review by his department’s inspector general.
“We’ve heard the criticism. We’ve heard the concerns. We take that very seriously and have taken it to heart,” Price said.
Price continued to take charter jets after a POLITICO investigation identified that the HHS secretary had been chartering private planes to conduct official business for months. The cost of his trips this past week was $56,500, according to a federal contract.
An HHS spokesperson said this past week's schedule was already set and the plane had been pre-booked before POLITICO raised questions about Price's travels.
POLITICO has now identified more than $400,000 in charter jet spending for Price’s travels since May.
Pressed by a Fox News host, Price allowed that “the optics in some of this don’t look good,” but he said that his situation differed from when he criticized then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in 2010 for "flying over our country in a luxury jet." As speaker, Pelosi had access to government aircraft and frequently took flights back and forth between Washington and California. |
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