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Article snippet: WASHINGTON — Tom Price’s fondness for taxpayer-funded private jet trips drew the ire on Wednesday of President Trump, who said he was disappointed in his secretary of health and human services, and would personally examine any financial malfeasance. Mr. Trump, who vowed during the 2016 presidential campaign that he would wring the capital of excess financial waste, publicly voiced his disapproval of Mr. Price for taking dozens of privately chartered flights that crisscrossed the nation to resort areas and conferences, racking up a tab of $400,000. Before departing on a trip to Indiana to pitch his tax rewrite plan, the president, who has not released his tax returns or completely divested himself from his real estate empire, sought to put out the latest ethical fire set by a member of his cabinet. “I was looking into it, and I will look into it. And I will tell you personally, I’m not happy about it,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Price. “I am not happy about it. I’m going to look at it. I am not happy about it, and I let him know it.” According to a senior administration official familiar with Mr. Trump’s thinking, the president’s willingness to ferret out financial wrongdoing is not good news for Mr. Price, a physician and a former Georgia congressman who has been a vocal proponent of cost-cutting within his own agency. Mr. Trump, who is known to dislike appearances of financial waste, is said to be increasingly frustrated with a series of reports published by Politico... Link to the full article to read more