Embattled Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price quit on Friday, the White House announced.

“Secretary of Health and Human Services Thomas Price offered his resignation earlier today and the President accepted,” spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.

“The president intends to designate Don J. Wright of Virginia to serve as Acting Secretary. Wright currently serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health and Director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.”

The development came after Price blew through more than $1 million of taxpayers’ cash for government and chartered private jets, President Trump said Friday.

“He’s a very fine man. I certainly don’t like the optics. I’m not happy, I can tell you that. I’m not happy,” President Trump told reporters shortly before Price submitted his resignation.

The president had said he would decide whether to can the former Georgia lawmaker later Friday — but Price saved him the trouble.

The White House approved the use of military aircraft for Price’s trips to Africa and Europe this spring, and to Asia in the summer, at a cost of more than $500,000 to taxpayers, Politico reported Friday.

The overseas trips bring the total cost to taxpayers of Price’s travels to more than $1 million since May, according to the website.

Trump had been telling pals that Price — a critic of government spending in Congress — has become a distraction, overshadowing his agenda and undermining his campaign promise to “drain the swamp” of corruption in Washington, sources told AP.

He’d also told people close to him that he believes Price’s run of bad headlines has stepped on the administration’s launch of its tax plan.

And he believes that Price didn’t do enough to sell the ill-fated GOP plan to “repeal and replace” the Obama health law.

Fighting to keep his job, Price said Thursday he’ll write a personal check to reimburse taxpayers for his travel on charter flights taken on government business. He pledged to fly commercial — “no exceptions.”

The repayment — $51,887.31, according to Price’s office — covers only the secretary’s seat. Price did not address the overall cost of the flights, which could amount to several hundred thousand dollars and is under investigation.

“I regret the concerns this has raised regarding the use of taxpayer dollars,” Price said in a statement. “I was not sensitive enough to my concern for the taxpayer.” His mea culpa came a day after a public rebuke from Trump.

With Wires