HHS Secretary Tom Price has resigned:
#breaking Tom Price out pic.twitter.com/VRo9KXR4VG
— Michelle Marsh (@ABC7MichelleM) September 29, 2017
Let’s just say this didn’t go according to plan:
Remember how "Health-wonk Tom Price is going to get a great replacement for O-care?" What did he contribute to any of it?
— Michael Brendan Dougherty (@michaelbd) September 29, 2017
The resignation becomes effective at 11:59 tonight:
INBOX: Trump has accepted Tom Price's resignation effective 11:59 pm
— Mary Ellen McIntire (@MelMcIntire) September 29, 2017
Don Wright will serve as interim head of HHS:
Another Friday exit at the White House — HHS Sec. Tom Price has resigned & Don Wright will serve as interim replacement.
— Samantha-Jo Roth (@SamanthaJoRoth) September 29, 2017
Hope Hicks strikes again:
Hope Hicks looks down at her notebook. With a red pen she neatly crosses out the name:
-TOM PRICEShe smiles and turns the page…
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) September 29, 2017
Possible replacements:
Names are being floated to replace HHS Sec. Price incl FDA Commissioner Gottlieb and CMS Admin Verma, I'm told.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) September 28, 2017
Or maybe this guy?
New HHS secretary?? pic.twitter.com/aKb055E96f
— Jeffrey Young (@JeffYoung) September 29, 2017
Stay tuned.
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