Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) urged his fellow congressional lawmakers to “get to work” on providing the Federal Aviation Administration with necessary upgrades, suggesting Congress must own some responsibility for not getting these changes implemented sooner.
The state of air travel in the United States has come under great scrutiny in recent months, with outages at Newark Liberty International Airport getting most of the attention. Sheehy, a former commercial pilot, vowed that Congress would address this issue under President Donald Trump’s watch, claiming Congress’s delay in providing FAA upgrades is now “coming back to bite us.”
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