Tom Price

HHS Secretary Tom Price Resigns After $1 Million Private Jet Scandal

| Importance: 8/10

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 …

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Trump Fires Preet Bharara After Broken Promise to Keep Him - Obstruction Amid Trump-Related Investigations

| Importance: 10/10

President Trump fired U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara on March 11, 2017, after Bharara refused to resign when ordered to do so—breaking Trump’s direct promise made just months earlier at Trump Tower to allow Bharara to keep his position. Bharara, the highly respected U.S. Attorney for the Southern …

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9/12 Taxpayer March on Washington Demonstrates Koch Network Mobilization Power

| Importance: 9/10

The 9/12 Taxpayer March on Washington represented a pivotal moment in conservative political organizing, mobilizing an estimated 60,000-75,000 protesters against the Obama administration policies. Meticulously organized by Koch-affiliated groups like FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity, the …

FreedomWorks Americans for Prosperity Dick Armey Brendan Steinhauser David Koch +5 more astroturf-organizing corporate-influence koch-network political-mobilization mass-demonstrations +2 more
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