Now that HHS Secretary Tom Price has had his wings clipped, what's going to happen to the rest of the cabinet officials who've come under scrutiny for their high flying ways? Are Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, and EPA administration Scott Pruitt expected to fall on their swords, too? Because they've definitely got the swamp stench hanging about them, too.
First Mnuchin got in hot water when it was revealed that he requested a government plane to fly him and his wife, actress Louise Linton, to Europe for their honeymoon this summer. Then we found out he was already under investigation for a trip to Kentucky with Linton on a government jet, which just so happened to coincide with the August 21 solar eclipse and where they could have seen it in totality.
Then there's Pruitt, who has flown aboard one charter flight and three government flights.
Pruitt's travel costs totaled more than $58,000 and included a military flight to Ohio, an interagency charter in Oklahoma, a private flight in Colorado and a trip aboard a plane owned by North Dakota.
And then there's Zinke, jetting off to Lake Tahoe, Virgin Islands, and Norway. Oh, and his home near Whitefish, Montana. On a charter plane owned by an oil executive.
Get that, taxpayers? We paid $12,375 to oil and gas millionaires (or billionaires) to shuttle Ryan Zinke home for one night. All while he schemes to open up our national parks for oil and gas drilling, destroying sensitive ecological environment to further enrich Big Oil executives. And we paid them! It’s even worse—he was there to give a short speech and then do photo shoots of himself looking rugged for outdoor magazines.
That's all remarkably grifty, and we're paying for it all. Meanwhile, U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico are dying. And Trump doesn't give a damn.