Trump's transportation chief demands $50 billion to prevent another huge FAA fiasco

Trump's transportation chief wants $50 billion to replace aging tech blamed for Friday ground stop. Markwayne Mullin and Sean Duffy cited old routers overloading for the repeated failures. Nationwide FAA halt delayed about 10,000 flights, and led to over 6,000 cancellations. The Department of Transportation says it wants $50 billion to replace aging technology that led to Friday's ground stop. In a press conference on Friday evening, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that the US has "old switches, old routers" that became overloaded with data and failed, disrupting communications at multiple air-route traffic-control centers. "We should talk to our senators and our members of Congress to say 'we don't deserve this, America,'" Duffy said.

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