Cenk Uygur
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Tom Price Flying Out Of Trump Administration
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September 30, 2017
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12:01Now PlayingLike Happy Gilmore said“The Price is wrong b*tch!" Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, and Ben Mankiewicz, the hosts of The Young Turks, tell you about Tom Price’s resignation. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. Join TYT
“Washington (CNN)Tom Price, the embattled health and human services secretary, resigned Friday in the midst of a scandal over his use of private planes, a storm that enraged President Donald Trump and undercut his promise to bring accountability to Washington.
Price's departure came as he's being investigated by the department's inspector general for using private jets for multiple government business trips, even to fly distances often as short as from Washington to Philadelphia. The cost for the trips ran into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The scandal infuriated Trump, who viewed the controversy as a needless distraction from his agenda. Over the course of the week, Trump fumed to aides about Price's flights, which he deemed "stupid," according to multiple sources. Instead of moving past the storm, Price's offer to reimburse the government for only a fraction of the flights' costs enraged Trump further.
Speaking less than an hour before the resignation was announced, Trump bemoaned the optics of the matter, which he said obscured what otherwise had been a cost-saving tenure.
"I was disappointed because I didn't like it, cosmetically or otherwise. I was disappointed," Trump said.
Price and his aides have insisted that the trips he took by private charter jet had been approved through the usual legal and ethics offices at HHS. But the appearance of a millionaire Cabinet secretary flying routes easily navigated by far cheaper means proved an optics nightmare for an administration already accused of being out of touch with regular Americans.”
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