New HHS Secretary Tom Price
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 29, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Tom Price, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, resigned today after backlash for traveling on government-funded private jets.
Price was a Congressman from Georgia before Trump nominated him to head the government department that oversees Medicare, Medicaid, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. HHS has a massive influence on American healthcare policy.
Price is strongly pro-life and pro-marriage.
He is the latest social conservative to be effectively purged from the Trump administration.
“Desperate to stop him from fulfilling the president’s promises by reversing the policies of the previous administration on issues like abortion, conscience, and health care, the Left has turned up the fire on the Health and Human Services chief in the hopes of elbowing out one of the most pro-life members of Trump’s cabinet,” Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council, wrote on September 28. Democrats “want nothing more than to oust one of the staunchest conservatives on Trump’s team…Knowing Tom Price as I have, there’s no doubt in my mind that he meticulously followed every rule. The department’s legal team would have
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