Rep. Elijah Cummings Elijah Eugene CummingsBlack GOP candidate accuses Behar of wearing black face in heated interview Overnight Health Care: US won't join global coronavirus vaccine initiative | Federal panel lays out initial priorities for COVID-19 vaccine distribution | NIH panel: 'Insufficient data' to show treatment touted by Trump works House Oversight Democrats to subpoena AbbVie in drug pricing probe MORE (D-Md.) has asked the chairman of the House Oversight Committee to subpoena the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services for full information about former HHS Secretary Tom Price Thomas (Tom) Edmunds PriceConspicuous by their absence from the Republican Convention Coronavirus Report: The Hill's Steve Clemons interviews Chris Christie Trump flails as audience dwindles and ratings plummet MORE’s use of charter and military airplanes.

In a letter sent to chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy Harold (Trey) Watson GowdySunday shows preview: Election integrity dominates as Nov. 3 nears Tim Scott invokes Breonna Taylor, George Floyd in Trump convention speech Sunday shows preview: Republicans gear up for national convention, USPS debate continues in Washington MORE (R-S.C.) Wednesday, Cummings, the top Democrat on the committee, said the administration has not sent complete details regarding the costs of Price using private planes and the justification for forgoing less-expensive commercial travel.

A GOP aide told The Hill the committee is still working with HHS “to obtain the requested information.”

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Gowdy and Cummings in late September started a bipartisan investigation into charter jet travel taken by members of Trump’s Cabinet, sending letters to multiple federal agencies as well as the White House.

Gowdy has previously threatened to subpoena the Departments of Agriculture and Justice for their lack of responses to the committee.

Price resigned at the end of September amid backlash over his use of taxpayer-funded charter and military aircraft for official government business.

HHS said Price reimbursed the U.S. Treasury for the cost of his seat on the flights, but Cummings’ letter said HHS and the Treasury Department have not produced a copy of the reimbursement check.

“By now, the White House and HHS should have produced complete manifests with lists of all passengers who joined these flights, as well as the full costs of each flight,” Cummings wrote.

HHS eventually responded, but according to Cummings, “these documents are so highly redacted that it is impossible to tell which other government officials or non-government officials joined Secretary Price on his charter flights.”



