Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to reports that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price has been using taxpayer funds to book private jets to accommodate his travel:
“I would remind Secretary Price that taxpayer funds are not meant to be used as a jet-setting slush fund. There is no reason to be regularly chartering private flights at the taxpayers’ expense between commercially serviced routes such as Washington, D.C. to Philadelphia. My colleagues and I will be looking into this further and we will be asking the HHS Office of the Inspector General for a full accounting of Secretary Price’s travel."
