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

Had seen this headline but hadn't read the stories yet. Realized last night that my friend's fiancé is one of the reporters that broke this story.
 
bkf comments about other people money? Not yet? oh. ok. shocking.
 
Price’s private-jet travels included visits with colleagues, lunch with son
The HHS secretary sometimes combined official travel and meetings with friends and family.


Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price took a government-funded private jet in August to get to St. Simons Island, an exclusive Georgia resort where he and his wife own land, a day and a half before he addressed a group of local doctors at a medical conference that he and his wife have long attended.

The St. Simons Island trip was one of two taxpayer-funded flights on private jets in which Price traveled to places where he owns property, and paired official visits with meetings with longtime colleagues and family members. On June 6, HHS chartered a jet to fly Price to Nashville, Tennessee, where he owns a condominium and where his son resides. Price toured a medicine dispensary and spoke to a local health summit organized by a longtime friend. He also had lunch with his son, an HHS official confirmed.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/26/tom-price-private-jets-243176
 
Imagine for a second on how Fox News and the hypocritical cult would bitch about this if it was done by someone in the Obama administration !?
 
Dirty administration and hypocritically immoral
 
Very swampy.

Looks like Trump is threatening to fire Tom Price now. Although one might ask why you would put an individual with so much ethical baggage into a cabinet role in the first place.

Then again Trump gives zero fucks about ethics so not surprised that this wasn't an issue until it was reported.
 
Price took military jets to Europe, Asia for over $500K

The White House approved the use of military aircraft for multi-national trips by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to Africa and Europe this spring, and to Asia in the summer, at a cost of more than $500,000 to taxpayers.

The overseas trips bring the total cost to taxpayers of Price’s travels to more than $1 million since May, according to a POLITICO review.
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it seems like republicans only care about spending when Dems are in office and then they go over and beyond the Dems spending and wonder why anyone complains. makes sense...
 
Deacon923 said:
When is the swamp draining going to commence again?
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Maybe it's all a long game. Trump gets his hands dirty, appoints all the shittiest people to positions in his govt, spreading the Russian mafia taint to all of them. When the shit hits the fan broad swaths of the shitty group of conservatives end up in jail. Trump mic drop.
 
DistrictDeacon said:
Interior Secretary used oil company executive's plane to fly to his vacation home.

https://t.co/1nChKdsxcZ

Nothing swampy to see here.
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Also:

Interior Secretary Zinke traveled on charter, military planes

On June 26, a Beechcraft King Air 200 carried Zinke and several staffers from Las Vegas to Glacier Park International Airport in Kalispell, Mont., about a 20-minute drive from Zinke’s home in Whitefish, according to his official schedule. The flight cost $12,375, Swift said.

Zinke left after speaking at an event for the city's new professional hockey team, the "Vegas Golden Knights Development Camp Dinner," according to his schedule. Earlier in the day, he had been in Pahrump, Nev., for an announcement related to public lands.

Zinke's flight left Las Vegas at 8:30 p.m. PST and landed around 1:30 a.m. MST in Kalispell. The secretary stayed overnight at his residence, Interior documents show.
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