House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Saturday supported Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s demand for additional funding to upgrade air traffic control infrastructure after the Federal Aviation Administration implemented a ground stop for nearly five hours over a disruption in the aging systems.
Duffy held a press conference at the White House on Friday evening following the halt in flights and demanded Congress provide $50 billion to overhaul the nation’s decades-old air traffic control system, an additional $20 billion to his previous ask for upgrades.
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