He's "sleepy" like Columbo was, lol! Send him there ASAP.
Posted on 09/29/2017 1:47:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
His "Price" was too high.
Tom Price, secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, is leaving the Trump administration amid a furor over his taking more than two dozen costly private plane trips instead of less-expensive commercial flights.
The White House said in a statement that President Donald Trump intends to tap Don Wright to serve as acting secretary. Wright currently serves as deputy assistant secretary for Health and director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
Price's announced departure Friday from the administration came a day after he said he would reimburse taxpayers for just a small fraction of the cost of his flights, and after he vowed to not use charter planes in the future.
Price — a longtime critic of wasteful federal spending and the administration's putative point man on attacking Obamacare — had taken 26 flights on charter plans since May, according to a Politico investigation.
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Has Sen. Menendez resigned yet? Oh, Dems don’t give a crap about ethics, that’s right.
he would reimburse taxpayers for just a small fraction of the cost of his flights,
$400,000 in price, he’s willing to replay $50,000!
Repay, of course.
They should put Sleepy Doc in there, he already discovered a bunch of waste at HUD.
What was the guy thinking?
Another example of why we can’t have nice things...
Ben Carson as a replacement, maybe? Who would be the best replacement, if you could make it happen?
Abolish HHS.
Can’t fix stupid. Read it here somewhere.
Is he maybe getting the heave-ho for not doing anything that ACA empowers the secretary to do?
A longtime critic of wasteful federal spending and the administration's putative point man on attacking Obamacare — Price had taken 26 flights on charter plans since May, according to a Politico investigation.In June, Price traveled on a $17,760 roundtrip charter from Washington to Nashville, Tennessee, Politico revealed. He spent less than six hours there, making two official appearances and eating lunch with his son.
In a four-day stretch in September, Price took flights costing an estimated $60,000 in total, according to Politico. Some of those flights came at times when dramatically cheaper commercial air travel would have been available.
Politico on Thursday reported that Price had also taken trips overseas using military jets, at a cost of more than $500,000 — putting the total tab for his penchant for pricey travel above $1 million.
He's "sleepy" like Columbo was, lol! Send him there ASAP.
I like Trump keeping his people accountable. That’s a nice change.
Wonder if anyone is taking a look at Obama appointees and their travel for comparison. We know the Secretary of State and her family did a lot of flying - but what about others.
That the govt and taxpayer work for him, not the other way around.
This is as close to STUPIDITY as I have ever seen.....$400,000 is the salary of onre of these jackasses
Get someone like this, an expert who could debate policy details:
http://www.heritage.org/staff/robert-e-moffit-phd
How about some research on Obama officials taking “costly private plane trips instead of less-expensive commercial flights” as a comparison?
And what about the many times Moochie Obama wouldn’t fly in the same airplane as Barack and taxpayers had to foot the bill for her to fly in a separate 747?
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How about Pelosi going home to CA on a Gulfstream almost every weekend?
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