CNN is reporting Tom Price has resigned as Secretary of HHS:
Tom Price, the embattled health and human services secretary, resigned Friday in the midst of a scandal over his use of private planes, a storm that enraged President Donald Trump and undercut his promise to bring accountability to Washington.
Price’s departure came as he’s being investigated by the department’s inspector general for using private jets for multiple government business trips, even to fly distances often as short as from Washington to Philadelphia. The cost for the trips ran into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
And so he joins that exclusive club of The Fallen Mighty, Legislative Version. This Congress’s only prior member is Senator Luther Strange, now soon to be former as noted earlier.
Teetering on the edge? Interior Secretary Zinke, who is also entering into travel scandal territory.
I gotta wonder if the extreme right is feeling uneasy as its leading exemplars are proving to be rather incompetent in the very mechanics of their jobs. I’m afraid the government has a higher bar of ethical behavior than does the private sector, boys.
