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HHS secretary took chartered aircraft on five flights last week, while his predecessors would fly commercial.
By DAN DIAMOND and RACHANA PRADHAN 09/19/2017 10:30 PM EDT
In a sharp departure from his predecessors, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price last week took private jets on five separate flights for official business, at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars more than commercial travel.
The secretarys five flights, which were scheduled between Sept. 13 and Sept. 15, took him to a resort in Maine where he participated in a Q&A discussion with a health care industry CEO, and to community health centers in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, according to internal HHS documents.
The travel by corporate-style jet comes at a time when other members of the Trump administration are under fire for travel expenditures, and breaks with the practices of Obama-era Secretaries Sylvia Mathews Burwell and Kathleen Sebelius, who flew commercially while in the continental United States.
Price, a frequent critic of federal spending who has been developing a plan for department-wide cost savings, declined to comment.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/19/tom-price-chartered-planes-flights-242908
This is an administration of grifters.
FSogol
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(14,971 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)You won't hear a peep about this from the Republican majorities in Congress.
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(5,801 posts)the serfs should just shut up and be grateful they are allowed enough to subsist.
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(268,844 posts)What a bunch of goons
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(26,605 posts)from the top down.