Politico: Price Visited Family Members, Longtime Friends On Private Jet Trips

Human and Human Services Secretary Tom Price listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price traveled by private jet for trips where he combined official business travel with visits to colleagues and family members, Politico reported late Tuesday.

Politico reported that Price traveled to St. Simons Island in Georgia, where he and his wife own land, in a government-funded private plane and touched down more than a day before he was scheduled to speak at a medical conference.

Price also traveled in June via chartered jet to Nashville, where he “spoke to a local health summit organized by a longtime friend” and had lunch with his son, Politico reported, citing an unnamed HHS official.

A department official said both trips were paid for by HHS and that Price took both on official government business.

The HHS inspector general announced on Friday that it was requesting documents related to Price’s travel, after Politico reported that Price had used private planes for travel at least 24 times since May, racking up a travel cost of more than $300,000.

Read Politico’s full report here.

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  1. And yet he still has a job. That I’m paying for. And there is zero chance that this badministration or its neutered puppet congress will do jack shit about it.

  2. I have a friend who drives a car owned by the federal government for her federal government job.

    She says that while driving that car for work, she can stop and go into a convenience store to get a sandwich for her lunch, but she’s not allowed to pick up milk or bread for her home at the same time.

    She says she’d have to go home and get her own car to do that. That’s the rule for Fed employees in government OWNED vehicles. Maybe it’s different for hired private planes.

  3. A true man of the people. Nothing swampy about this at all.

  4. How to save H&HSA?

    Price-less…

  5. organized by a longtime friend

    Proof that it never happened: Except for perhaps Mattis and that poor guy at the VA, people in Trump’s cabinet do not have “longtime friends.”

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