Tom Price to halt taxpayer-funded travel on private jets pending review

Pressed by a Fox News host, Price allowed that “the optics in some of this don’t look good,” but he said that his situation differed from when he criticized then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in 2010 for “flying over our country in a luxury jet.” As speaker, Pelosi had access to government aircraft and frequently took flights back and forth between Washington and California.

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Price said that HHS would “cooperate fully” with the inspector general review, which is already underway, and his department has begun its own review of its travel practices.

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