President Biden’s pick to head up the Federal Aviation Administration had a confirmation hearing this week:

President Joe Biden’s pick to run the Federal Aviation Administration finally got a hearing Wednesday on his nomination, with Democrats praising him as a skilled leader of large transportation bureaucracies while Republicans called him unqualified because of his relatively thin aviation experience.

If confirmed by the Senate, Phillip Washington would take over an agency dealing with safety concerns including several recent close calls between planes, understaffing that has contributed to flight delays, and the breakdown of a pilot-alert system that briefly stopped flights nationwide in January.

Let’s just say that Republican Sen. Ted Budd was less than impressed with the answers he got (or didn’t get as it were):

Based on that, Sen. Ted Cruz isn’t confident the nomination will go through:

Senate Dem Brian Schatz said the Republicans were doing a “hatchet job” on Biden’s nominee, which means the lack of Washington’s ability to respond to some of their questions is concerning.

If the FAA thing doesn’t work out there are other possibilities in the future:

He’d just need to make sure KJP leaves her Big Book of Talking Points behind for reference.

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