Regarding “Price rightly pays for his travel with his job” (Sept. 30): Your editorial “rightly” names others as well as former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price in Trump’s Cabinet “who have also used costly air travel” on the taxpayers’ dime to add vacations and tours for spouses and staff while on so-called “official business.”

However, can we please pay attention to the fact that Donald “Drain the Swamp” Trump claimed he was “not happy” with Price while he “prepared to leave the White House en route to his private golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.”

Haven’t we been informed that Trump’s frequent trips to his other properties like Mar-a- Lago on Air Force One are a drain on taxpayers, including the costs for his security detail?

J. Porru Green


Kearny Mesa

If not for Politico’s investigative reporting, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price would still be using chartered flights that cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, yet House Speaker Paul Ryan called Price “a good man” and Trump admitted he “didn’t like the optics” but not the fact that American taxpayers were being fleeced.

If a Democratic Congressional member admitted to the same reprehensible activity, Trump would have shouted from the White House roof “Lock him up.”


Bunny Landis

Oceanside

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