“I was looking into it and I will look into it,” Trump said, according to
Politico. “And I will tell you personally, I’m not happy about it. I am
not happy about it. I’m going to look at it. I am not happy about it, and I
let him know it.”
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is “not happy” with Health
Secretary Tom Price following reports of his extensive use of publicly-
funded private jets and indicated he has not ruled out firing the former
Georgia congressman over the trips.
“We’ll see,” Trump told reporters assembled on the White House’s South
Lawn when asked about whether he would fire Price.
“I was looking into it and I will look into it,” Trump said, according to
Politico. “And I will tell you personally, I’m not happy about it. I am
not happy about it. I’m going to look at it. I am not happy about it, and I
let him know it.”
The exchange came days after the same publication reported that Price flew
charter airplanes on more than two dozen occasions since last spring,
costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. Easily accessible
commercial flights were also available in most of those cases, the outlet
reported, and some trips were to locations where he owned homes or family
lived.
The inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services
announced last week that it was investigating Price’s travel. The former
orthopedic surgeon has since announced that he won’t take taxpayer-funded
trips on private jets while the inquiry is ongoing.