My wife can't fly alone with our kids is a helluva spin

The kids are 10 and 12. Heidi's Goldman Sachs executive. It's a 2.5 hour flight. I think she can handle it.

Also you're supposed to quarantine for 10 days when you come back from abroad. He'd do that for an overnight?
"Wanting to be a good dad"

you'd think that the way to do that would be to set an example by pulling out all the stops to help Texans. Nope.
So the line from Cruz is both that this was a "long-planned" trip AND that his daughters asked if they could go when their school was cancelled? 🥴🧐

Neither explains why Heidi couldn't go with them on her own.
So if this is something Heidi can't manage on her own is he planning to go back down to fly them back up? How would that work with the 10-day quarantine he's supposed to go into now?
as i suspected, this vacation was planned to fall when his kids were out on break. So not some kind of last-minute crisis of "being a good dad." nytimes.com/2021/02/18/us/…
The tail of the personal fall-out will be long, at least...
extreme "like the kids, hate the parents" vibe

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