Salon - President Donald Trump's Secretary of Health and
Human Services, Tom Price, is facing intense criticism due to the
revelation that he used private jets on at least five occasions for
official business, adding tens of thousands of dollars in expenses
for American taxpayers in the process.
Price took five flights between Sept. 13 and Sept.
15 to Maine, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania for various health
care-related events, according to Politico.
His predecessors under President Barack Obama, Sylvia Mathews Burwell
and Kathleen Sebelius, used commercial jets when flying within the
continental United States.
On one occasion, Price took a charter flight from
the Washington-area Dulles International Airport to Philadelphia
International Airport, costing taxpayers roughly $25,000. A flight on
United Airlines was leaving at roughly the same time and would have cost
only $447 to $725 per person, Politico noted. There were also four
Amtrak trains that Price could have taken, which would have gotten him
to Philadelphia on time; the cheapest train could cost $72 in advance.
And, of course, he could have driven the 125-mile trip, taking about 2
1/2 hours, according to Politico.
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