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Week in Review: Washington’s Jet Set

The current tempest in Washington's teapot has to do with the use of private aircraft by a number of Trump administration officials: HHS secretary Tom Price and Treasury boss Steve Mnuchin have charged taxpayers for private-jet service, and Mnuchin's offense was compounded by the aggressively stupid conspicuous-consumption...

October 01 2017

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Washington's Jet Set

Kevin D. Williamson

The current tempest in Washington's teapot has to do with the use of private aircraft by a number of Trump administration officials: HHS secretary Tom Price and Treasury boss Steve Mnuchin have charged taxpayers for private-jet service, and Mnuchin's offense was compounded by the aggressively stupid conspicuous-consumption...

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