Talking Points Memo: GOP Rep.: Price ‘Made A Few Errors’ With Private Flights
Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) said Thursday that his former colleague and current Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price “made a few errors” in spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on private flights.
An investigation by Politico last week uncovered the extensive private jet expenses, and since then the Health and Human Services inspector general, as well as the House Oversight Committee, have said they’re looking into the matter.
Price said Thursday that “I think we’ve still got the confidence of the President,” but Trump on Wednesday said “we’ll see” about Price’s future in his administration.
“Should Tom Price be fired?” MSNBC’s Chris Jansing asked Brat during an interview Thursday.
“That’s above my pay grade,” Brat said. “I’m a lowly economics professor. The lawyers and the ethics people —”
Jansing interjected: “But does it bother you that somebody as a member of the Cabinet — where they said we’re going to drain the swamp — you have now multiple members who are flying private planes?”
“I don’t know the basic facts,” Brat responded. “I think Secretary Price himself says ‘I got the memo.’ I think he knows he made errors.”