US EditionCommunications Outage Caused by the Closure of El Paso Airspace Sparks Cross-Accusations Within the Trump Administration
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Party balloons? FAA’s surprise El Paso airspace closure fuels questions
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) surprise closure and later opening of airspace over El Paso, Texas is fueling questions from the public and sharp rebukes from lawmakers. Trump administration officials initially contended the move came in response to the incursion of Mexican drug cartel drones. However, the closure of airspace — initially set to last [...]
Trump administration tries to extinguish new brushfires
The NewsPresident Donald Trump is ending a notably quiet week when it comes to facing the press as his administration tries to extinguish a new round of political brushfires.From confusion surrounding the closure of El Paso airspace to lawmakers’ bipartisan frustration over the DOJ monitoring their searches of the unredacted Epstein files, the week brought plenty of distractions that Republicans on Capitol Hill had hoped to cast aside for a stri…
By Kevin Liptak, Alayna Treene, Natasha Bertrand and Pete Muntean, CNN. The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) abrupt and unexplained closure of airspace over El Paso, Texas, early Wednesday morning has sparked a blame game within the government, with key senior officials claiming they were not alerted to the move in advance, according to several people familiar with the matter. The White House, which was furious with the FAA over the decis…
The big fiasco that occurred in the lack of communication from U.S. security and intelligence agencies that forced the closure of El Paso, Texas airspace was yet another warning from the Trump administration: “We’re going to enter Mexico to end the cartels.”
El Paso, Texas, air space was closed for several hours due to a dispute between the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and the Pentagon
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