Trump blames Biden for nationwide grounding of flights, in first address since crisis
Trump urged Congress to fund a full air traffic control overhaul after the FAA halted all U.S. departures for about four hours.
- On Sunday, President Donald Trump broke four days of silence on the nationwide FAA ground stop, blaming the Biden administration for the crisis and calling the system an 'FAA disaster' while urging Congress to approve emergency funding.
- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy reported the four-hour ground stop occurred after contractor L3Harris Technologies Inc. attempted to replace old copper wire with fiber cable, causing a system overload affecting radar and communications.
- FlightAware reported more than 16,000 flights were delayed or canceled on Friday, while Transportation Secretary Duffy raised his funding request to $50 billion from $30.1 billion sought earlier.
- Illinois Governor JB Pritzker retorted, 'Cut the crap. Trump and Republicans have controlled Congress and could have funded the system,' while New York Governor Kathy Hochul called for Duffy's resignation.
- Lawmakers are launching investigations into whether contractor incompetence or faulty equipment caused the disruption, as the $50 billion funding request emerges as a central point of legislative contention over aviation safety.
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Trump breaks silence on nationwide ground stop, demands more money for FAA infrastructure from Congress
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday broke his silence on the nationwide ground stop that snarled airline travel this weekend, using the incident to push Congress on money to fully upgrade America’s air traffic control system.
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Trump blames Biden admin for FAA outage debacle — as he repeats Duffy’s call to spend billions on upgrades
President Trump is blaming the Biden administration for Friday’s nationwide flight-grounding debacle, while urging billions of dollars be spent on rebuilding the country’s air-traffic-control system.
Sharpton's MS NOW 'Expert' On Trump's Silence On FAA Grounding: 'His Ego Can't Handle It'
Predictably, in the wake of Friday's nationwide ground stop issued by the FAA, some in the left wing media have used it to go after the administration and in particular President Trump, who has been uncharacteristically silent on the matter. Saturday on MS NOW's Politics Nation, host Reverend Al Sharpton's panel of MS Now contributors, bizarrely claimed that Trump's ego couldn't handle addressing the issue, and that it's not unusual for him. Sha…
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