Schiff Mocks Price: He Committed ‘Unpardonable Sin’ Of Not Owning Jet

United States Representative Adam Schiff (Democrat of California), Ranking Member, US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Russia Investigative Task Force, listens as former US Secretary of Homeland Secur... United States Representative Adam Schiff (Democrat of California), Ranking Member, US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Russia Investigative Task Force, listens as former US Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson testifies before the committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP - NO'WIRE'SERVICE'- Photo by: Ron Sachs/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images MORE LESS

Longtime vocal critic of President Donald Trump, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) mocked Trump and former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price for not being “rich enough” to fit into “Trump’s world.”

Before Price’s resignation was announced Friday, Trump told reporters that he has some “great secretaries” and that some of his cabinet secretaries actually own their private planes, which “solves that.” He was referencing reports that Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos frequently travels using a private plane that she owns and pays for herself.

Not long after news of Price’s resignation broke, Schiff tweeted that Price committed the “one unpardonable sin in Trump’s world: Being rich, but not rich enough to own his own private jet.”

Price resigned on Friday after a week’s worth of reports that he had spent more than $1 million of taxpayer money to travel in private jets since coming to the White House.

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  1. Price probably is rich enough to own a private jet.
    “I’ve got Money that the government
    don’t even know was made”*
    Whichever GOP congressman is shielding him from the IRS told him ix-nay on the et-jay and other displays of opulence.

    *song-“Short on Love”
    John D. Loudermilk

    I’m guessing I’ll never disagree with Rep. Schiff again, tho.

  2. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    President Donald Trump on Monday night appeared to joke about firing Health and Human Service Secretary Tom Price if he does not corral enough votes to get an Obamacare repeal bill through the Senate tomorrow.

    “By the way, you’re going to get the votes?” Trump said to Price, who stood beside him onstage at a national Boy Scout event in West Virginia.

    “He better get ’em. He better get ’em. Oh, he better,” Trump said, turning back to the crowd. “Otherwise I’ll say, Tom, you’re fired. I’ll get somebody.”

    From a July 24 article on TPM. His real offense was embarrassing Trump on ACA repeal.

    Price has no value to anyone. He failed Trump on ACA repeal and he’s failing the American people by purposely sabotaging it.

  3. He Committed ‘Unpardonable Sin’ Of Not Owning Jet

    Zinke: I am working on it. I just need another year.

  4. Avatar for fess fess says:

    Why in the world would he buy his own jet when he can use taxpayer money? HHS spokeswoman Chairmane Yoest explained it this way

    Secretary Price leads a $1.2 trillion agency — the largest agency in government.

    Waste not of your personal funds, want not.

    <img src=“/uploads/default/original/3X/b/3/b36d2da84ab1be7c7f4a0c24081c4f5ec2a65dfb.png” width=“300” height=“168”

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