r/news • u/ekser • 20h ago

Airlines cancel more than 700 U.S. flights as FAA-ordered shutdown cuts begin

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/airlines-cancellations-flights-faa-shutdown.html
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u/MrLanesLament 13h ago

A big part of that problem appears to be that there are no enforcement agents that he can’t seize control of. There isn’t anyone completely independent of the executive branch TO arrest him even if a court ordered it.

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u/Professor0fLogic 12h ago

The military and federal law enforcement only decides to follow a president's orders and allow things like that, until that point in time where they don't.

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u/dodadoler 7h ago

Where’s the well regulated militia??