Having bilked the taxpayers to the tune of a million dollars for chartered flights on government planes, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price is out. He was forced to resign before Trump had the chance to say, "You're fired!"
There's something of an irony to this. As the Democrats are slowly beginning to get their mojo back by winning hyperlocal special elections, Price is now out of government after having quit his House seat in Georgia to join Trump's Cabinet, that House seat now occupied by another Republican. Democrat Jon Ossoff, having failed in his bid for Price's House seat, must be laughing his Ossoff!
Price, an orthopedic surgeon by training, now has to have required surgery on his reputation.
To think, after all of his attempts to help Trump get rid of Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act is in place and Price is out of Washington. But at the same time, he won't be in a position to ignore and underfund the Affordable Care Act in order to undercut it. Trump can do that simply by . . . not replacing him.
Because the incoming Acting HHS Secretary, Don Wright, will have an appropriate title, doing no more than playing a part in Donald Trump's new reality show.
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