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Duffy implores Congress to stump up $50 billion after FAA outage: ‘Give us the money to fix it’

By Claire Carter
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin called on Congress Friday night to provide $50 billion to overhaul the nation’s decades-old air traffic control system after a nationwide outage grounded flights for nearly five hours.

The two Trump administration officials used an emergency press conference to argue that the disruption demonstrated the need for additional federal funding, warning that similar failures could occur without a complete replacement of decades-old technology.

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