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Price’s private-jet travel breaks precedent ($25K DC to Philly)

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I'm old enough to remember when Tom Price pretended to care about wasteful spending.

Price’s private-jet travel breaks precedent

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.

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Price’s spokespeople declined to comment on why he considered commercial travel to be unfeasible. On one leg of the trip – a sprint from Dulles International Airport to Philadelphia International Airport, a distance of 135 miles – there was a commercial flight that departed at roughly the same time: Price’s charter left Dulles at 8:27 a.m., and a United Airlines flight departed for Philadelphia at 8:22 a.m., according to airport records.

Sample round-trip fares for the United flight ranged from $447 to $725 per person on United.com, though the price would have been lower if booked in advance or if Price’s party received government discounts. Similarly priced commercial flights also left from Reagan National Airport and Baltimore Washington International. By contrast, the cost of chartering the plane was roughly $25,000, according to Ultimate Jet Charters, which owns the Embraer 135LR twin jet which ferried Price and about 10 other people to the clinic event.

In addition, Amtrak ran four trains starting at 7 a.m. that left Washington’s Union Station and arrived at Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station no later than 9:58 a.m. The least-expensive ticket, on the 7:25 a.m. train, costs $72 when booked in advance. It is just a 125-mile drive from HHS headquarters in downtown Washington to the Mirmont Treatment Center outside of Philadelphia, where Price spoke. Google Maps estimates the drive as about two-and-a-half hours. A one-way trip was estimated by travel planners to be about $30 in gasoline per SUV plus no more than $16 in tolls.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/19/tom-price-chartered-planes-flights-242908
 
Tom Price is a hypocritical piece of shit who loves spending public money on himself, just not anyone else?

While I never!
 
Abusing company provided / state provided airfare is an American tradition
 
DC to Philly? Come on.



^^ That's posted on his own youtube channel.

 
Do these people realize that people can find their tweets?
 
I mean this was less than five months ago:

 
So the HHS Secretary flying private jets on the taxpayer dime is the rule not the exception. Thanks for being such a good steward of our tax dollars Mr. Price. Great money management skills.



Price traveled by private plane at least 24 times

HHS secretary chartered flights even to cities with frequent, inexpensive commercial options.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/21/tom-price-private-charter-plane-flights-242989

In June, Price spoke at a physicians association conference in San Diego, where he vowed to wring out wasteful spending in the government’s health care programs. Getting “value” for spending “is incredibly important,” he said.

Price took a private plane to get to the meeting, which was one stop on a five-state sprint of charter travel that cost $50,420.

smh
 
From the perspective of a government employee, where we literally can't even get the office to pay $50/month for a fucking water cooler, this story is unbelievable. The dude just does not give a fuck and that is remarkable and pretty sad commentary on this administration where it appears to be the norm.
 
Words and actions don't matter as long as you're sticking it to the Democrats, lazy popes, and brown people
 
We get nervous going to an actual work conference and staying at a hotel that could even be PERCEIVED as too nice. This dude spent $25,000 on a private jet to fly like 15 minutes.
 
Been checking in on this thread waiting for bkf to comment about spending other people's money. Still waiting.
 
Ooooops.

Investigations
Inspector general to investigate Price’s travel on private charter planes

“OIG is conducting a review of Secretary Price’s Federal travel using chartered aircraft. The review focuses on whether the travel complied with Federal Travel Regulations, but may encompass other issues related to the travel,” said Tesia D. Williams, a spokeswoman for Levinson. “We take this matter very seriously, and when questions arose about potentially inappropriate travel, we immediately began assessing the issue. I can confirm that work is underway and will be completed as soon as possible.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...-1230pm:homepage/story&utm_term=.1a7c8ffb9087
 
The news comparing these flights to pre-booked commercial flights is funny considering government clearance for approved travel often comes like the day before. It's a huge source of waste.
 
The news comparing these flights to pre-booked commercial flights is funny considering government clearance for approved travel often comes like the day before. It's a huge source of waste.

Yeah. Whenever I have government booked travel, it's much more expensive than what I could have booked myself. Just give HHS a travel block grant and be done with it.
 
The news comparing these flights to pre-booked commercial flights is funny considering government clearance for approved travel often comes like the day before. It's a huge source of waste.

Government fares are usually the same price, regardless of when they are booked.
 
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