HHS Secretary Is Taking A Lot Of Private Jet Rides On Your Dime
Tom Price has been using a private jet for months potentially costing taxpayes hundreds of thousands.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has been using private jets to fly around the country costing taxpayers of tens of thousands more than commercial travel, according to a new report by Politico.
Last week Price, “took private jets on five separate flights for official business.”
Price is a vocal critic of federal spending and has proposed dramatic cuts to the governments health care spending.
And as Politico notes, Price’s privat jet travel “breaks with the practices of Obama-era Secretaries Sylvia Mathews Burwell and Kathleen Sebelius, who flew commercially while in the continental United States.”
In one recent trip, Price used a private jet to fly just 135 miles from Dulles International Airport to Philadelphia International Airport. According to the Politico report, the flight cost tax payers about $25,000 but a commercial flight would have cost just a few hundred dollars.
The report went on to note, “Current and former staffers, speaking on the condition of anonymity, say Price has been taking private jets to travel domestically for months. Ethics experts say the use of private charters by government officials, while legal, is highly dubious and in most cases a misuse of taxpayer funding.”
Read the full Politico report here.
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