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Trump blames Biden for nationwide grounding of flights, in first address since crisis
Sean Duffy seeks $50 billion to modernize the air traffic control system after a nationwide outage canceled thousands of flights.
- On Sunday, President Donald Trump broke his silence on the nationwide aviation crisis, blaming the Joe Biden administration for worsening the country's aging air traffic control system after a major malfunction grounded flights.
- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the four-hour ground stop resulted from maintenance work on an old copper wire that caused "issues" with communication and radar feeds.
- Duffy appealed for $50 billion to modernize the air traffic control system, though Congress approved only $12.5 billion for the project last year.
- Illinois state governor and prominent Democrat JB Pritzker retorted, "Cut the crap," adding Republicans could have funded the system; New York Governor Kathy Hochul called for Duffy to resign.
- Trump wrote on Truth Social that much of the current system is 50 years old and "RIDICULOUS," urging Congress to approve funds quickly to build the "BEST SYSTEM anywhere in the World.
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"The Biden Administration was a disaster for the FAA. Everything they touched got worse. A lot of money was spent without criteria to make worse a system that was already old and failed," Donald Trump said in a message published on social networks.
·Lisboa, Portugal
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Trump called the management of aviation by the Democratic Biden administration “a disaster.” “Everything they touched ended badly,” said the president of the United States.
DONALD Trump is calling for an urgent modernization of fifty-year-old air traffic control after a massive failure that disrupted 20,000 flights in the US.
·Zagreb, Croatia
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Trump, in first comments on air travel halt, blames Biden
·Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Total News Sources26
Leaning Left6Leaning Right7Center4Last UpdatedBias Distribution41% Right
Bias Distribution
- 41% of the sources lean Right
41% Right
L 35%
C 24%
R 41%
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