🚨 BREAKING: Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy IMMEDIATELY requests $50 BILLION from Congress to fix our outdated FAA systems after today's outage was caused on old hardware "Let's invest so we never have to come at 8:30 at night and have a press conference on why air travel was SHUT DOWN, tens of thousands separated from their families!" "Let's finish this job. New hardware, new software, new telecommunication. Many of our towers are almost a hundred years old!" SOME upgrades were made, but the cause of the outage was on non-upgraded parts Congress already gave $12.5 BILLION in the One Big Beautiful Bill, which paid for that first round of upgrades The pieces that FAILED today were the ones still waiting their turn. Fund the WHOLE JOB, or we'll be right back here again!
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 14, 2026
DUFFY FIRES BACK AT NBC! “I think the question should be from NBC to every member: Do you support actually modernizing, making a state-of-the-art air traffic control system?” Transportation Secretary @SecDuffy hit back at the White House moments ago after an NBC reporter asked why the air traffic control overhaul hasn’t been a bigger priority, since “Republicans control both chambers of Congress.” “Maybe you haven’t covered the 100-plus press conferences that I’ve done on this issue that have been led by the President, but I know Fox has.” “By the way, this is bipartisan, but on that bill, I didn’t have Democrats that voted for it.” “Every American, I guarantee you, would tell those members, yes, give President Trump, give Duffy the money, let them finish this job so we don’t have to do a press conference at 8:30 at night, ever again.” Duffy says the One Big Beautiful Bill delivered $12.5 billion toward the new system. He’s calling on Congress to pass emergency funding before the end of the year.
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) November 14, 2026
Fox News’ Peter Doocy: “You haven't seen footprints suggesting a cyber attack and nobody's taking credit for a cyber attack. Have you seen any evidence specifically?” DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin: “No. We have seen zero evidence. We've seen zero evidence that this was that this was a cyber attack or SI attack.” Peter Doocy: “So then it must be something else. What is the other thing? What caused the instability?” DOT Secretary Sean Duffy: “So it's very easy. We have old, old switches. Old routers. We use 1980s little copper lines. It's an old system that went down and went down everywhere. It got overloaded. So right now we've opened up the airspace. We've got our centers and our TRACONs operational. It would be much, and I don't want to rule out that we didn't have nefarious activity here. That's Markwayne and the cybersecurity team that works with us. We were able to deploy fixes to reduce the overloading on our switches that were able to bring the networks back online and our TRACONs and our centers back online. So I think our fix gives us a pretty good indication that it was a legacy network problem that went down. And by the way, all of the new equipment that we put in, none of that went down. This is all the old legacy equipment that's existed forever. By the way, none of your networks run on 1980 technology. You all got fiber, state-of-the-art, high-speed networks that cover all of your stations, but not the FAA. I think the American people deserve the same kind of network that you all use, the same kind of connectivity and speed that you all use. That's what we're asking the Congress to give us.” Well said, it’s long past time the FAA’s dated system is updated!
— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) November 14, 2026
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