Price Plans to Write $51,800 Check for Flights on Private Jets

  • Taxpayers ‘won’t pay a dime for my seat,’ HHS chief says
  • Politico reported at least 26 flights totaling $400,000

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Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, under fire for his use of taxpayer-funded private jets, said he will pay back the U.S. government for expenses associated with the charters and vowed to fly commercial from now on.

Price will reimburse $51,887.31 for his share, according to his department. That would be fraction of the total costs of what Politico reported were at least 26 private flights since February, totaling more than $400,000.