travel costs were. $300 to fly commercial from washington to nashville. he took a private plane at more than $17,000. at least 20 trips. including a flight from washington to philadelphia, can drive in 2 1/2 hours or train for $72. this is just the spending that price railed against under the obama administration. in particular spending on private planes for congressman. nancy pelosi. what i want to say to the speaker, don t you fly over our country in private jet and lecture us on what it means to be an american. still talking about being frugal this summer. price said in june it s incredibly important to get rid of wasteful spending in government health programs. and he took a private plane to
physician. cares deeply about health care policy. this is one of the better choices that president trump made in a group of outstanding cabinet appointments. and yet now he has gone, basically, 9.5 months. the problem was, this was not defensible. when you become a cabinet official, it suddenly got a big department to run, important responsibilities, you have a security detail, which is necessary. you have a lot of people saying, we want to see you. unfortunately, in figuring out where he was going and how he was going to get there, both secretary price and the people around him and, apparently, somebody inside the white house, or not paying attention to what is appropriate and proper. for example, he had one trip from washington, d.c., to philadelphia in which he took a child out of, i believe it was a private charter jet out of the dallas airport to philadelphia. well, you can either fly on commercial planes between
according to politico. they found five private flights in one week, including one from washington to philadelphia. you can drive in about two and a half hours or take a train for about $72. and let s not forget, this is just the kind of spending that price railed against under the obama administration. here is what he said about then speaker nancy pelosi in 2010. what i want to say to the speaker, don t you fly over our country in your luxury jet and lecture us on what it means to be an american. the magic of videotape. tom price was still talking about being frugal as recently as this summer. politico reports a conference in san diego in june he said it s incredibly important to get rid of wasteful spending in government health programs and yes, of course, he took a private plane to that very conference. i understand the white house just released a statement about this. they did, anderson, and this is clearly a sign of the white house trying to get their hands around what clearl
who signed off on this, who generated these requests. but if you re an adult who understands how the world works and you re in the government and you get on that many charter flights, particularly some of the ones to philadelphia and nashville and places he owned homes, the level of bad judgment is, for many people around the president, disqualifying. is it really that big of an obstacle to get rid of somebody and just have an acting secretary? we don t have a nominee for dhs, nobody seems to even notice that dhs is headless. well, you could have an acting secretary for a while. but in the way the president thinks about these things, he wants smaller problems, not bigger problems. yeah, i guess noah s question is for president trump, who s let it be known through the press he s annoyed by this, he doesn t like the behavior of tom price. why let him continue to sit there? if you listen to tom price he sounded one of those apologies, i m sorry there was so much concern about this
me, he s largely correct. but that does not extend to his crony cabinet. they do not afford the cabinet the same latitude on ethics, on political incorrect language, on bad press. so he is the only person who can get bad press for his administration. he does not sort of have the latitude to take on water for his cabinet. it s the bad mindset of the people at the top. they shouldn t be even thinking of getting on these planes. how could the process exist within these departments that people in the legal affairs department, the ethics office, how could they possibly sign off on it? clear it. does ethics and stupidity if you talk to price, if you ve gone from washington to philadelphia, forget the expense. to go to the airport, get on a private jet, get to philly, go back it s actually less time to take an amtrak. that s the ridiculous thing. just the efficiency of just how you manage your day that i need this largess.