SURPRISE!! More GOP Hypocrisy!

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Remember when conservatives liked to whine about how expensive it was for Obama Administration to fly on private jets? $5 says they sing a different tune now...


Tom Price Spokeswoman Says Private Jet Is Needed To Reach Real Americans

“This is Secretary Price, getting outside of D.C., making sure he is connected with the real American people.


Taxpayers have paid for Tom Price, the head of the Health and Human Services Department, to fly on private planes at least 24 times, a decision the department defended by saying Price wanted to connect with ordinary Americans.

The cost of the trips exceeded $300,000, Politico reported. Charmaine Yoest, an HHS spokeswoman, defended the cost in a statement, saying Price was justified in taking the flights because he wanted to hear from many Americans.

“This is Secretary Price, getting outside of D.C., making sure he is connected with the real American people,” she said in a statement to The Washington Post. “Wasting four hours in an airport and having the secretary cancel his event is not a good use of taxpayer money.”

But Politico found that Price could have used a commercial plane for many of the trips on which he used a private jet. For example, the outlet reported that HHS paid $17,760 for a chartered flight from Washington to Nashville, Tennessee, on June 6 when there were commercial flights available for just a few hundred dollars. Price also used a private plane to fly to the swanky Aspen Ideas Festival in June, a trip Politico estimated to have cost more than $7,000.

Price began using private air travel after a delayed commercial flight made him miss a public event that his office had planned, according to the Post.

Price isn’t the only Trump Cabinet official to use private air travel for government work. The Associated Press reported that Linda McMahon, the head of the Small Business Administration, and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos have also traveled by private aircraft. A Department of Education spokesperson told the AP that DeVos pays for all of her own travel, and an SBA spokesman said McMahon paid for the difference between private and commercial services out of pocket. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs banker and financier, requested a government plane to take him and his wife on their honeymoon, but ultimately did not get one.

Even White House staff seemed annoyed at Price’s travel as Republicans are pushing for legislation to replace the Affordable Care Act.

“No one is quite sure what [Price] is doing,” a senior White House official told Politico. “You look at this week, we’re doing a last final push trying to get this over the finish line, and he’s nowhere to be found.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...ushpmg00000009

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Remember when conservatives liked to whine about how expensive it was for Obama Administration to fly on private jets? $5 says they sing a different tune now...


Tom Price Spokeswoman Says Private Jet Is Needed To Reach Real Americans

“This is Secretary Price, getting outside of D.C., making sure he is connected with the real American people.


Taxpayers have paid for Tom Price, the head of the Health and Human Services Department, to fly on private planes at least 24 times, a decision the department defended by saying Price wanted to connect with ordinary Americans.

The cost of the trips exceeded $300,000, Politico reported. Charmaine Yoest, an HHS spokeswoman, defended the cost in a statement, saying Price was justified in taking the flights because he wanted to hear from many Americans.

“This is Secretary Price, getting outside of D.C., making sure he is connected with the real American people,” she said in a statement to The Washington Post. “Wasting four hours in an airport and having the secretary cancel his event is not a good use of taxpayer money.”

But Politico found that Price could have used a commercial plane for many of the trips on which he used a private jet. For example, the outlet reported that HHS paid $17,760 for a chartered flight from Washington to Nashville, Tennessee, on June 6 when there were commercial flights available for just a few hundred dollars. Price also used a private plane to fly to the swanky Aspen Ideas Festival in June, a trip Politico estimated to have cost more than $7,000.

Price began using private air travel after a delayed commercial flight made him miss a public event that his office had planned, according to the Post.

Price isn’t the only Trump Cabinet official to use private air travel for government work. The Associated Press reported that Linda McMahon, the head of the Small Business Administration, and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos have also traveled by private aircraft. A Department of Education spokesperson told the AP that DeVos pays for all of her own travel, and an SBA spokesman said McMahon paid for the difference between private and commercial services out of pocket. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs banker and financier, requested a government plane to take him and his wife on their honeymoon, but ultimately did not get one.

Even White House staff seemed annoyed at Price’s travel as Republicans are pushing for legislation to replace the Affordable Care Act.

“No one is quite sure what [Price] is doing,” a senior White House official told Politico. “You look at this week, we’re doing a last final push trying to get this over the finish line, and he’s nowhere to be found.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...ushpmg00000009

What a convenient memory lapse for JPP's hypocrite conservatives...


Top Republican criticizes use of FBI planes

Washington (CNN) - A top congressional Republican complained Thursday that FBI jets are being used too much on travel for the FBI Director and Attorney General and not enough for FBI missions.

Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa expressed particular concern about the use of two Gulfstream V planes. "These luxury jets were supposedly needed for counterterrorism, but it turns out that they were used almost two-thirds of the time for jet-setting executive travel instead," Grassley said.

[MAGA MAN]

Remember when conservatives liked to whine about how expensive it was for Obama Administration to fly on private jets?

No.

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No.

No, of course you don't.

That's why I included the article I did.

[MAGA MAN]

No, of course you don't.

That's why I included the article I did.

The articles refers to me?

[zappasguitar]

The articles refers to me?

The article showcases the GOP hypocrisy you denied.

[christiefan915]

The article showcases the GOP hypocrisy you denied.

OMG that poor soul! Had to take a private plane from DC to Philly, a bit over 100 miles. Looks like waste, fraud and abuse are his middle names.

Another grifter from the trump Mafia, just like Mnuchin.

[zappasguitar]

OMG that poor soul! Had to take a private plane from DC to Philly, a bit over 100 miles. Looks like waste, fraud and abuse are his middle names.

Another grifter from the trump Mafia, just like Mnuchin.

And there is STILL no condemnation from JPP Trump supporters.

[floridafan]

Come on sweetie, you did it almost every single day, but suddenly when not only is it being done by the Trump administration to a far far worse degree, your kind says nothing.

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Does anyone else find it hilarious when Zappacrite makes a thread whiny about hypocrisy?

[Waternark]

Remember when conservatives liked to whine about how expensive it was for Obama Administration to fly on private jets?

I don't remember anything like that. In fact, I don't think I've ever known a conservative to whine ever. We're all a very tough bunch.

[christiefan915]

I don't remember anything like that. In fact, I don't think I've ever known a conservative to whine ever. We're all a very tough bunch.

Your president is the whiner-in-chief. He hasn't spent a day in office not mewling about all the slights he has to suffer.

[Waternark]

Your president is the whiner-in-chief. He hasn't spent a day in office not mewling about all the slights he has to suffer.

I've never known Trump to whine. Hillary, on the other hand, wrote a book that was nothing but whining.

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All the article shows is a problem with one guy...Price.

[christiefan915]

I've never known Trump to whine. Hillary, on the other hand, wrote a book that was nothing but whining.

Then you're tone-deaf.