A Michigan politician is warning people about the impact of federal rollbacks in protections for airline passengers.

Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, of Travese City, who served in the Biden administration joined CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper on Friday night to discuss the issue.

He was responding to President Donald Trump’s administration’s Thursday announcement to drop a Biden-era plan to require airlines to pay passengers cash compensation when flights experience extreme delays or cancellations.

“This is the norm in a lot of countries,” Buttigieg told CNN’s Tapper on Friday, Sept. 5.

He joined the show virtually from the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport.

Airlines in the U.S. are required to refund passengers for canceled flights but not to com

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