aircraft, it s $25,000 an hour. and again, for context, it s not weird he would need to visit another country on business. that s a good thing. they fly commercial. again, tom price tried to get out of this growing mess that he s in at about 4:00 this afternoon by saying he was sorry he offended his own sensitivities and the american taxpayers wouldn t pay a dime for his seat on all of these flights according to the calculations, that meant he needed to pay the american taxpayers back like $50,000 and he said he would. just the flights we know about and we re guessing there might be more. just the private jets in the united states and the military charters he took, as well, just the ones we know about, the actual taxpayer cost from what tom price has been doing calculate by reporters who have been tracking at politico.com, the price is well over $1
his apology that he would reimburse the taxpayers for the cost of the private jet flights he had been taking. tom price said in his apology, quote, today i will write a person check to the u.s. treasury for the expenses of my travel. the taxpayers won t pay a dime for my seat on those planes. that sounds awesome like he s totally making the american taxpayers whole here, right? bret baier quickly ferreted out of him was that he really specifically meant it when he said he was going to pay for his seat on all those private flights he took. tom price decided that what he will pay back to the taxpayers is about $50,000. which he says covers his seat on all of those dozens of private plane trips that he took. here is the thing, though. he s talking about like he chartered a 30-seat jet and he s going to pay 1/30th of it
the first to report in the first article on the 19th of september secretary price was quote breaking press i dent in terms of his use of private jets. that first report was he five times in one week charged to fly instead of commercial like other public officials have previously done. the next report is that tom price didn t just do it that one week, turns out he was charging taxpayers to fly on private jets quite a lot. that first report had been about five flights in a week. the second report was about 24 private jet flights that he took all on the taxpayer s dime. the third report was tom price charging taxpayers to do things like have lunch with his son and have nice weekends away at places where he and his family had nice places to stay. so these reports about tom price cashing in on his government job
immigration. green writes candidate trump seemed indifferent but changed his mind when he tried it out in a speech in january of 2015 and the place went nuts. the u.s. economy may hinge now on a throwaway catch phrase that just happened to catch on. more from cnn s sarah mur rich. has the white house offered any more information following the president s threat about shutting down the government? aside from what you saw from sarah huckabee sanders today, they haven t really given us an indication of why the president decided this is something he would be willing to shut down the government over. they also didn t offer any real explanation as to how he squares and acts like this with what you showed was a regular campaign promise. a notion that this wall was going to be built and american taxpayers wouldn t be on the hook for. since he became president, the president of mexico has made one thing very clear to president trump. they re not paying for that
green writes candidate trump seemed indifferent but changed his mind when he tried it out in a speech in january of 2015 and the place went nuts. the u.s. economy may hinge now on a throwaway catch phrase that just happened to catch on. more from cnn s sarah mur rich. has the white house offered any more information following the president s threat about shutting down the government? aside from what you saw from sarah huckabee sanders today, they haven t really given us an indication of why the president decided this is something he would be willing to shut down the government over. they also didn t offer any real explanation as to how he squares and acts like this with what you showed was a regular campaign promise. a notion that this wall was going to be built and american taxpayers wouldn t be on the hook for. since he became president, the president of mexico has made one