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ARTICLE | Politics & Policy

Price flies from HHS

September 29, 2017 9:33 PM UTC

Tom Price resigned on Friday as HHS secretary in the wake of disclosures that he had spent over $400,000 of federal funds on charter flights. Prior to joining HHS, Price had represented suburban Atlanta, Ga., in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Friday afternoon, before Price’s resignation was announced, President Trump said he had ordered a halt to the use of government funds to charter private planes. He told reporters: “We have great Secretaries, and we have some that actually own their own planes, as you know, and that solves that.”...