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Trump Goon Enlists Nepo Baby to Dodge Blame for Air Chaos
The Daily Beast • • nation
Key Points:
- The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a rare nationwide ground stop on Friday due to "extraordinary circumstances" and safety concerns, halting all departing flights for about four hours and affecting over 1.5 million passengers.
- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin attributed the disruption to outdated air traffic control technology and overloaded routers, denying any connection to security threats or recent Microsoft outages.
- Duffy called for Congress to allocate $50 billion to upgrade the air traffic control system, emphasizing the urgency of prioritizing homeland infrastructure spending.
- Evita Duffy-Alonso, daughter of Secretary Duffy, publicly supported her father's stance on social media, urging Congress to fund air traffic control and criticizing government spending priorities.
- This incident marks only the second nationwide ground stop since September 11, 2001, with a similar event occurring in January 2023 due to a system outage.
