HHS Secretary Tom Price Is Out After Private Plane Scandal

Tom Price has been fired. 

After an embarrassing and quickly growing scandal surrounding Tom Price’s use of dozens of private jets for government travel, Price has been fired by Donald Trump.

Price’s private jet and military travel cost taxpayers over $1 million and broke precedent with all previous HHS secretaries who traveled commercially.

Tom Price’s firing isn’t likely to end the growing scandal which includes several other administration officials who also have regularly used private jets rather than fly commercially.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement via Twitter Friday that Price offered his resignation to President Trump Friday, and Trump accepted.

The White House announced that Don Wright, who is currently the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, will become the acting HHS secretary.

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