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Tom Price has left the building, ladies and gentlemen.
President Donald Trump's health and human services secretary quit Friday in a four-paragraph resignation letter amid staunch criticism of his use of taxpayer-funded private jets, and Hollywood is laughably thrilled.
The announcement came in the middle of Trump's investigation of Price's use of charter flights for work-related trips, which have ended up costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Needless to say, the "price is not right" jokes came flooding in on Twitter.
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View StoryPrice is the latest in a string of exits from Trump's administration which has included the national security adviser, press secretary, communications director, chief strategist, acting attorney general and FBI director.
See how Hollywood is taking the news below.
Finally draining the swamp(kinda). Also, just cause you resigned Tommy, doesn't mean you don't still owe us tax payers that money. https://t.co/W6z1vYTc7T
@ChrisEvans
I hear for his retirement, Tom Price is having the taxpayers buy him an extremely expensive gold watch.
@StephenAtHome
This is a wonderful piece of news. Will he be paying the $500k he owes the US taxpayers? Next Up... #FireScottPruitt #FireZinke https://t.co/t6nILhK740
@MarkRuffalo
If Tom Price were a stock, Tom Price would have sold all his shares 3 weeks ago.
@samstein
Tom Price committed the one unpardonable sin in Trump's world: Being rich,but not rich enough to own his own private jet. https://t.co/dFLUitubHZ
@RepAdamSchiff
Tom Price to resign in order to spend more time flying to and from his family.
@jonlovett
Tom Price is out. That's one less misogynist in the @WhiteHouse.
@womensmarch
Many more to go. pic.twitter.com/CH3mlJwrH1
Tom Price has a net worth of $13.6 million.
@calvinstowell
He can afford to pay us back every, last cent, with added interest.
🎼Tom Price/Sally Yates/Michael Flynn and Mike Dubke/Gorka Bannon Preibus Spicer/Comey and The Mooch/We didn't start the f
@pattonoswalt
OK. I'm gonna get in on these "Price is Wrong" jokes. Here goes: "The Price is a fucking criminal who stole from US taxpayers."
@mileskahn
Safe travels, Secretary Price!https://t.co/z2BIkKByo5
@FullFrontalSamB
Boom. Good bye. Guess the “Price” was not “right” for any of us. https://t.co/oYMMWeISj8
@GeorgeTakei
It seemed me, watching Tom Price in his confirmation hearing, that there was an *awful* lot of smoke... #inners
@chrislhayes
Tom Price was such a distraction from the President's NFL priorities, he had to go.
@kalpenn
Tom Price just proved this is the Spinal Tap drummer of presidential administrations.
@JohnFugelsang
