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Money for trips on private jets. cnn has learned it doesn't stop there. an air force official says price also took military aircraft for two multi-stop international trips earlier this year, racking up a $500,000 bill according to politico. those overseas trips, which the white house approved, bringing the total cost of price's travel to over $1 million. >> wi heae heard the concern an critici criticism. >> reporter: price pledging on thursday to pay back a portion of the totalling. riting a check for 51 t$51,887.. >> to pay for my portion of those trips. this is unprecedented. >> reporter: th...

Things. one is to say there will be no private air charters at hhs going forward. second is to cooperate fully. with the inspector general. there is a review going on and i called for an internal review within the department itself and finally to pay for my portion of those trips. this is unprecedented, never been done, to our understanding, before by secretary in spite of the fact that previous administrations about secretaries that flew an awful lot. still unsure. you say in a statement the taxpayers won't pay a dime for my seat on those planes. you are writing a check, we understand, $51,88...

Be an american. >> i think we made it halfway where we ought to and that's cut it from 8 to 4 jets. now from 4 jets to 0 jets. this is just another example of fiscal irresponsibility run amok in congress right now. >> so he was against jets before he was for them. that was hhs secretary tom price back in 2009 railing against the fiscal irresponsibility of government officials using private planes. that was eight years ago. but this was the health and human services secretary last night trying to explain his use of chartered flights since taking the job in february. >> in the statement, the tax...

Handle matters while he was overseas and he needed access to secure communications. so in a statement earlier yesterday, secretary price said, he will take no more private charter flights, quote, no exceptions. price avoided an outright apology and instead said, quote, all of my political career i've fought for the taxpayers. it's clear in this case i was not sensitive enough to my concern for the taxpayer. price promised to write a personal check to the u.s. treasury for the expenses of his private travel. quote, the taxpayers won't pay a dime for my seat on those planes. price appears to hav...

Flights as secretary of hls, no exceptions. i will write a personal check to the u.s. treasury for the expenses of my travel on private charter planes. the taxpayers won't pay a dime for my seat on those planes." my seat. turns out that, yes, price plans to just pay for his lone seat of his chartered flights, not the entire bill. hhs says he will write a check for $51,887, out of the reported $400,000 charter flight bill. that's just one-eighth the cost of 26 charter flights he kept taking even after politico started reporting on his private jet expenses. and tonight things just got even worse...