Let's just say that things have been better over at the Transportation Department:
With countless travelers stranded at airports around the country, what's the quickest way to resolve this problem and get the U.S. back on a traveling basis?
One Republican has a pretty good idea:
Republicans want Pete Buttigieg and his staff to be forced to fly commercial flights until recent failures in air transportation are fully investigated and resolved.
GOP Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina filed a bill Wednesday that would force the Transportation Secretary to come face-to-face with disastrous airline travel. ...
The bill, Mace said in a statement announcing it on Wednesday, 'would require the Secretary of Transportation to only fly commercial.'
'So, until the issues with Southwest and the FAA are investigated and resolved, he and his staff, should be required to fly commercial just live every other American,' she said.
It would be nice to imagine the Secretary of Transportation being forced to transport himself like the rest of us, although it appears that Buttigieg is already most of the way there:
A spokesperson for DOT told Fox News that 111 of Buttigieg's 129 flights in his capacity as Transportation secretary have been commercial because it is the cheapest way to fly.
Fair enough. Then rewrite the bill to mandate that Buttigieg has to fly coach if he needs to take a plane. No luxury first-class arrangements; it has to be back in the hold with the rest of the worker class:
