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Senators Grill HHS Pick on Care Act, Stock Trades

Rep. Tom Price—President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial pick for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services­—said “nobody is interested in pulling the rug out from anybody” as part of Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

“It’s not our plan for people to lose coverage,” Price told members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Wednesday morning during the early portion of the hearing.