Senate panel doesn’t ‘have the votes’ for Trump’s plan to privatize air traffic control

Published June 20, 2017 10:52pm ET



The transportation committee in the Senate lacks the votes necessary to advance a plan by President Trump to privatize the country’s air traffic control system, according to the panel’s chairman.

“No, we don’t have the votes to pass that in our committee at the moment,” Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., chairman of Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee told reporters on Tuesday.

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