There Goes Another One

Tom Price [...] has resigned as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) after offering the American people an apology and a fractional refund for wasting over $1 million of taxpayer money to charter private and military flights during his short stint in office.

  CNN

Does that mean Mnuchin, Pruitt and Zinke are going to resign?

Price's $1 million private flight tab crowns him as the king of travel waste amongst the Trump cabinet, far exceeding the reported travel expenses that have also put Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke under scrutiny.

[...]

Price lost his position over this scandal, given how it entirely undercut his political persona as a fiscal conservative. But Price's mismanagement of taxpayer resources for official travel pales in comparison to his active sabotage of Obamacare, a program it was his duty to administer carefully so long as it remains the law of the land.

During Affordable Care Act marketplace enrollment dates (November 1 through December 15) the HHS department typically joins community health groups in local campaigns to encourage signups. Given how insurance works, the more people that buy into it, the lower the costs for everyone, and the more stable the insurance markets will be. Price directed his department to pull out of these events, and slashed the advertising budget to spread the word by 90%.

[...]

Price's department also plans to shut down the HealthCare.gov enrollment website for 12 hours during all but one Sunday during the enrollment period for "scheduled maintenance."

[...]

It was fair politics for Secretary Price to back all of the failed Obamacare repeal efforts this year. It was fair politics for Secretary Price to back a budget that slashes funding for his HHS, the CDC and NIH, to the dismay of the medical and scientific establishment.

[...]

But Price's efforts to destroy the law he wanted to see replaced weren't on the level for someone who became a government administrator tasked with executing that law on behalf of the American people.

[...]

Though it isn't yet clear what the upshot of Price's resignation will be, these planned lengthy outages come on top of Price's decision in the spring to cut this year's Obamacare enrollment period in half from last year's 90-day period.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.