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So what does it mean when he hired an entire cabinet full of people he either couldn't get along with or were corrupt or outright lied or hated the administration because it's a bloody clown show? You know, the dozens who were forced to leave in the first year if not the first quarter??
You made a statement-prove it or you are a liar
His abrupt departure was announced an hour after Trump told reporters he was disappointed in Price's use of expensive plane travel and did not like the optics of it.
"Secretary of Health and Human Services Thomas Price offered his resignation earlier today and the president accepted," the White House said in a statement.
Trump named Don Wright to serve as acting secretary. Wright is currently the deputy assistant secretary for health and director of the office of disease prevention and health promotion.
"I'm not happy. OK? I'm not happy," Trump told reporters on the White House South Lawn.
Trump, currently trying to sell his tax cut plan and oversee the federal response to devastation wreaked by three hurricanes, saw the Price drama as an unnecessary distraction and behind the scenes was telling aides "what was he thinking?," a source close to the president told Reuters.
Price promised on Thursday to repay the nearly $52,000 cost of his seats on private charter flights. "The taxpayers won’t pay a dime for my seat on those planes," Price, a former congressman, said.
But that was not enough to satisfy Trump.
Trump told reporters that the "optics" of Price's travel were not good since, as president, he is spending a lot of time trying to renegotiate U.S. contracts to get a better deal for taxpayers.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/us-health-and-human-services-secretary-tom-price-has-resigned-white-house/ar-AAsDfAy?OCID=ansmsnnews11
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