The following article by Megan R. Wilson was posted on the Hill website February 28, 2018:
Current and former high-ranking Trump administration officials are testing the waters of Washington’s job market as the administration begins its second year.
And that water, right now, is pretty tepid.
Lobbyists, headhunters and others involved in hiring processes told The Hill that phones have been ringing. Continue reading “Exiting Trump officials get tepid response on job market”
The following article by Lauren Clason and Mary Ellen McIntire was posted on the Roll Call website January 8, 2018:
Political appointees at the Department of Health and Human Services include at least 16 staffers with ties to former Secretary Tom Price and at least 12 with connections to Vice President Mike Penceor Indiana, a review of 129 résumés of appointed staffers in the department shows.
Pence’s influence over the agency can be seen in the appointment of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma, who worked closely with the former Indiana governor to expand Medicaid in that state, and the appointment of Verma’s deputy Brian Neale, who currently oversees Medicaid and served as Pence’s health care policy director in Indiana. A number of staffers also have ties to conservative groups close to Pence, such as the Heritage Foundation and anti-abortion organizations. Continue reading “HHS Political Appointees’ Résumés Show Ties to Price, Pence”
The following article by John T. Bennet was posted on the Roll Call website September 29, 2017:
Updated at 5:33 p.m. | Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned Friday afternoon amid a scandal stemming from his use of taxpayer funds for private charter flights, according to the White House press secretary.
Price reportedly spent as much as $400,000 of taxpayer monies on chartered flights, including one to the tune of $25,000 to fly between Washington and Philadelphia. Continue reading “Price Resigns as HHS Secretary, Trump Accepts”
The following article by Arthur Delaney was posted on the Huffington Post website September 20, 2017:
WASHINGTON ― Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price needs to travel on private jets for his job because he is extremely busy, a spokeswoman said Wednesday in response to criticism that chartering flights is expensive and wasteful.
Politico reported Tuesday that Price took five private flights just last week, including a half-hour trip from Washington to Philadelphia.
Continue reading “Waves of color surround the Capitol Dome, February 2017”
The following article by Linda Qiu was posted on the New York Times website June 13, 2017:
Members of the White House cabinet took turns praising President Trump at a gathering on Monday, adopting the commander in chief’s evaluations of himself. Their mimicry was not limited to a day of flattery; several have also adopted Mr. Trump’s rhetorical style of doubling down on false claims and pushing so-called alternative facts.
At least four Trump administration cabinet secretaries have defended austere budget cuts and policy shifts at their departments with misleading statements in congressional testimony and other official settings. Here’s an assessment. Continue reading “Fact Check: These Statements by Trump’s Cabinet Don’t Match Policy”
The following article by Eric Boehlert was posted on the Media Matters website May 14, 2017:
As the Beltway press scrambles to keep pace with the White House’s shifting explanations as to why President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey — explanations that seem built on a laundry list of daily deceptions — journalists are now fighting a multiple-front war versus the Republican crusade to embrace fabrications as a rule.
The erratic new president has unleashed a torrent of lies in the place of public policy discussion, but the serial mendacity on the right is hardly limited to Trump. That means journalists face a growing challenge in trying to ferret out the facts. Continue reading “It’s Not Just Trump: Republicans Constantly Lying About Health Care Means Reporters Face A Growing Challenge”
The following article by Eric Umansky and Marcelo Rochabrum was psoted on the ProPublica website March 2, 2017:
As most of the world knows by now, Attorney General Jeff Sessions did not tell the truth when he was asked during his confirmation hearings about contacts with Russian officials.
But Sessions isn’t the only one. At least four other cabinet members made statements during their nomination hearings that are contradicted by actual facts: EPA Chief Scott Pruitt, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.
The statements were all made under oath, except those of DeVos. It is a crime to “knowingly” lie in testimony to Congress, but it’s rarely prosecuted. Continue reading “Twitter Facebook Comment Email Republish Donate 5 Trump Cabinet Members Who’ve Made False Statements to Congress”
The following article by Danielle Root was posted on the Center for American Progress website February 1, 2017:
Rep. Tom Price’s (R-GA) nomination to be the new secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services is under a heavy ethical cloud. Price is alleged to have engaged in dubious ethical decisions at best and corrupt dealings that violate the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge, or STOCK, Act at worst. The STOCK Act prohibits members of Congress from making “investment decisions based on insider information they might come across because of their congressional role.”
There is evidence, for example, that Rep. Price received a tip from Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY) to purchase stock from an Australian biomedical firm, Innate Immunotherapeutics Inc. Collins, who sits Continue reading “Rep. Tom Price’s STOCK Act Scandal”
