HHS Secretary Tom Price resigns
Source: CNN
(CNN)President Donald Trump accepted the resignation of Tom Price, the embattled health and human services secretary, Friday in the midst of a scandal over his use of private planes.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/29/politics/tom-price-resigns/index.html?adkey=bn
That's all so far.
I wonder if he's going to still pay up for his "seat"?
Renew Deal
(81,844 posts)underpants
(182,585 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)underpants
(182,585 posts)Yes there's an entire website just for this
https://www.sadtrombone.com/
And flying high
calimary
(81,085 posts)This is GREAT!
Price-Checked.
DinahMoeHum
(21,771 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,283 posts)Whooooooooo's next?
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Retweeted by the Washington Post: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost
The time stamp on the tweet is PDT.
{ETA, Saturday:} Well, it said 1:36 when I posted it on Friday, but now it's 4:36. Whatever.
INBOX: "Secretary of Health and Human Services Thomas Price offered his resignation earlier today and the President accepted."
Link to tweet
hatrack
(59,566 posts)CatWoman
(79,293 posts)Ligyron
(7,615 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,220 posts)the SEC or some other federal agency?
George II
(67,782 posts)lostnfound
(16,161 posts)Preet Bharara was investigating it before he was fired by Trump.
https://www.propublica.org/article/preet-bharara-fired-investigating-tom-price-hhs-stock-trading
In one case, Price was one of just a handful of American investors allowed to buy discounted stock in Innate Immunotherapeutics a tiny Australian company working on an experimental multiple sclerosis drug. The company hoped to be granted investigational new drug status from the Food and Drug Administration, a designation that expedites the approval process.
Members of congress often try to apply pressure on the FDA. As ProPublica has reported, Prices office has taken up the causes of health care companies, and in one case urged a government agency to remove a damaging drug study on behalf of a pharmaceutical company whose CEO donated to Prices campaign.
lostnfound
(16,161 posts)Preet Bharara was investigating it before he was fired by Trump.
https://www.propublica.org/article/preet-bharara-fired-investigating-tom-price-hhs-stock-trading
In one case, Price was one of just a handful of American investors allowed to buy discounted stock in Innate Immunotherapeutics a tiny Australian company working on an experimental multiple sclerosis drug. The company hoped to be granted investigational new drug status from the Food and Drug Administration, a designation that expedites the approval process.
Members of congress often try to apply pressure on the FDA. As ProPublica has reported, Prices office has taken up the causes of health care companies, and in one case urged a government agency to remove a damaging drug study on behalf of a pharmaceutical company whose CEO donated to Prices campaign.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,220 posts)SunSeeker
(51,504 posts)TNNurse
(6,924 posts)SunSeeker
(51,504 posts)jamesatemple
(342 posts)HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)the sinking ship! lol
sheshe2
(83,637 posts)Now flush.
George II
(67,782 posts)Wonder if he took a private jet home...POS!
nycbos
(6,034 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,285 posts)if Price is facing indictment over his stock trade, and this whole thing was leaked to usher him out before he sullies this immaculate administration. Based on nothing, just a suspicion. It seemed orchestrated. Very effective and quick.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)HHS employees--horrified by his attitude, conduct, and the agenda to wreck HHS and the ACA--leaked the information.
Whaddya wanna bet he's a major-league asshole to work for?
No wonder pruitt wants a cone of silence.
What a bunch of rapacious bastards.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)in addition to her other duties.
(just kidding)
sheshe2
(83,637 posts)DON'T DO THAT!!! It could so easily be true.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,283 posts)Last edited Thu Oct 5, 2017, 01:01 PM - Edit history (1)
Someone in HHS dropped the dime on Price. It might have been someone who processes the travel requests, or maybe it was someone who keeps track of the motor pool. Whoever it was, he or she takes the Blue/Orange/Silver Line to work every day and has done so for years (well, not the Silver Line) and puts in a forty-hour work week. He or she was sufficiently ticked off to spill the beans and call Politico.
Hat tip to you, conscientious worker! And to you too, Politico, for digging into this.
Well done, good and faithful {civil} servant.
FakeNoose
(32,556 posts)DU (or somebody neutral) should set up an anonymous leakers' website.
Sort of like what Wikileaks tried to be before they turned into paid Russian trolls.
But honest hard-working government employees are sick of what's going on, as much as the rest of us.
They don't want to be fired from their jobs but they do want people to know about this stuff.
I hope there's a way they can leak stories about their a-hole bosses and not get into trouble.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,283 posts)leakers can send information anonymously.
lamp_shade
(14,814 posts)Not one vote from D's... not even Manchin.
HHS nominee Tom Price bought stock, then authored bill benefiting company
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/02/hhs-nominee-tom-price-bought-stock-then-authored-bill-benefiting-company/97337838/
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)Another GRIFTER gone!
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,283 posts)sheshe2
(83,637 posts)Thanks~
JCMach1
(27,553 posts)Price is a royal douche
cloudbase
(5,511 posts)next head of the NCAA.
flamingdem
(39,308 posts).. the RIDE!
unblock
(52,113 posts)So he's resigning on principal (and no, I did not misspell that word!)
Dustlawyer
(10,494 posts)Am-track, Greyhound, or coach on Jet Blue!
not fooled
(5,801 posts)Hell, I'd buy a ticket for each of the cabinet denizens to go home and take their grifting, Government-hating attitudes with them.
(insert emoji of one emoji kicking other emoji in the ass)
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)LittleGirl
(8,277 posts)is still in our HOUSE! Damn it.
He needs to resign or be impeached, yesterday.
DoctorJoJo
(1,134 posts)Betsy DeVoss can handle both jobs! She'll just institute prayer circles to heal the sick.
hibbing
(10,094 posts)IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)for the private plane flights
sandensea
(21,595 posts)The doors will be revolving tonight.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,283 posts)OliverQ
(3,363 posts)Don't they take an oath to "Do no harm?"
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,283 posts)Kleveland
(1,257 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)And Rachel knows!!!!!
Love her!
they were just waiting for the Friday afternoon news dump.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)MontanaMama
(23,294 posts)on that thug Zinke!! Lets get him the eff out of dodge too. Dont let the door hit you in the ass on your way out, Tom!!!
mountain grammy
(26,598 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)paid moving cost either. It's pricey to move your stuff back to what ever rock you want to crawl back under.
rurallib
(62,373 posts)the travel expenses are a convenient excuse.
If the other 2 get fired over travel expenses (Zinke and Pruitt) then I was wrong. But I don't look for it.
Trump has to blame someone for any failure of his because Trump himself never fails. So Price was the fall guy this time.
kacekwl
(7,010 posts)The whole group of trump and his minions need to be arrested and publicly shamed.
Ilsa
(61,690 posts)And then cut him loose once he's indicted.
Please.
"Gmar Chatimah Tova" - something I read on DU today.
Ha! He gave up his congressional seat for this.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,131 posts)It just took him a few days to line up his new gig. I bet he doesn't pay that lame $52K either.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,027 posts)kairos12
(12,841 posts)mdbl
(4,973 posts)I can only think something else was in a closet with the door about to open because overspending taxpayer money is usually a trump directive.
dchill
(38,432 posts)for Trumpkinhead to find somebody even worse to replace him. I really can't imagine...
George II
(67,782 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)ailsagirl
(22,885 posts)As of five days ago:
FOURTEEN!!
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)We know it's only a matter of time.