White House counselor Kellyanne Conway took several trips with former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price on charter jets that were related to the administration's efforts to fight the opioid epidemic. | Nicholas Kamm/Getty Images Cummings questions White House about Conway's private jet travels

The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee wants the White House to provide details of private jet flights that counselor Kellyanne Conway took with former HHS Secretary Tom Price, who resigned last week in the wake of a scandal over his use of charter planes for official business.

Conway took several trips with Price on charter jets that were related to the administration's efforts to fight the opioid epidemic, a POLITICO investigation found. In a letter to the White House, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) asked that Conway provide documents related to all non-commercial flights she's taken since joining the administration.


Cummings is also seeking proof that Price paid back his portion of travel costs, which he vowed to do just one day before he resigned under pressure from President Donald Trump.

In a separate letter, Cummings asked acting HHS Secretary Don Wright and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin for a copy of the check that Price said he would write for his seat on private jets — around $52,000. POLITICO identified at least $1 million in non-commercial flights that Price took since May on private charters domestically and trips on military aircraft overseas.

The oversight committee last month launched a bipartisan probe into senior officials’ use of non-commercial aircraft, but chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) did not sign on to the new letters.

Cummings requested a copy of Price’s flight payment by Friday and records documenting Conway’s travel by Oct. 18.

