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329 | Saagar & Marshall on Congress, Airline Debacles, & Taiwan + John Lettieri on Non-Competes and American Dynamism

The Realignment

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Lena Khan's Competence as a Young Up-and-Coming Ambitious Person

LZ Granderson: I've been getting increasingly frustrated with Secretary Pete Buttigieg. He says the young FTC chair Lena Khan brings energy, vision and actual idea to the table. But he doesn't see people just bringing any of that because that is what you're supposed to bring in a job such as secretary of transportation or police commissioner. LZ: You can either bring vision and aggressive intelligence like Theodore Roosevelt did when he was appointed by President Biden for Civil Service Forum Commission back in 1880s. The guy should be doing his job.

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