BREAKING: HHS Secretary Tom Price Is Out
Offered Resignation Earlier Today
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has resigned, according to the White House. Price had spent over $1 million in private chartered and military planes for travel that would have cost a small fraction of the price had he flown commercially.
BREAKING: Tom Price has resigned as secretary of Health and Human Services, the White House says https://t.co/EZbrzT6IVL pic.twitter.com/W1T6poCGBC
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) September 29, 2017
JUST IN: HHS Sec. Tom Price resigns after facing scrutiny over use of private charter planes https://t.co/86tTnvRFCh pic.twitter.com/zKk2VmPbXG
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 29, 2017
Developing
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