After the holiday airline debacle featuring Southwest Airlines cancelling thousands of flights due to insufficient numbers of crews to staff the planes there is pent up anger among consumers. Meanwhile, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is conspicuous by his absence from the debate. While he has no direct power to order the airlines to compensate consumers for egregious actions, he has plenty of coercive power to make the airlines uncomfortable. He can at least hold them accountable for the scheduling which resulted in many flight cancellations.
As Republicans in the House prepare to go all Hunter Biden all the time, the Biden administration will have to use its executive authority to the max in order to get anything done during he next 2 years. The various cabinet secretaries have the power. Will they use it?
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