Tom Price to stop taxpayer-funded private jet travel, repay $51,000
by Kimberly Leonard | Sep 28, 2017, 4:34 PM
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price vowed Thursday not to take anymore private charter jets in his government role, and said he would write a check to the U.S. Treasury to reimburse past flights.
"I will take no more private charter flights as Secretary of HHS," he said in a statement. "No exceptions ... the taxpayers won't pay a dime for my seat on those planes."
Price said he was continuing to cooperate with an investigation opened by the Office of the Inspector General, as well as an internal review by his agency, and noted that all of his travel had been approved by the legal department and by HHS officials. According to reporting by Politico, his flights, of which there were at least 24, have cost the federal government about $300,000 this year. He at times used a jet to travel on official business but also combined the trips with personal business.
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