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Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned after revelations he spent over $1 million in taxpayer funds on private jets and military aircraft for travel that included personal business. Price took at least 26 private charter flights costing over $400,000, often to places where he had personal business or could have flown commercially for a fraction of the cost. His resignation marked the first Cabinet-level departure due to corruption scandal in the Trump administration, setting a pattern of ethical violations that would plague multiple Cabinet members.