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MAGA Blames Biden, Not High Fuel Prices, for Spirit Airlines Collapse

Rolling Stone·Nikki McCann Ramirez·28 days ago
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says Democrats are celebrating high energy prices. Actually, it was Trump Corporate America witnessed the first major casualty of Donald Trump ’s Iran war oil shock this weekend, with the shuttering of Spirit Airlines — the steerage-in-the-sky budget carrier that pioneered the fee bonanza that now dominates air travel.  In a press release announcing the closure, Spirit Airlines CEO Dave Davis wrote that the decision had been made in light of “the sudden and sustained rise in fuel prices in recent weeks” that had pushed the company to the brink.  While the reason for Spirit’s demise is crystal clear, the Trump administration is offering up an alternative explanation, one that erases their role in the looming economic crisis created by the president’s reckless foreign militancy.  During a Monday morning appearance on Fox News, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy attempted to blame rising jet fuel prices and the airline’s collapse on Democrats and Joe…

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