Senate bill ditches Trump plan to privatize air traffic control

By Susan Ferrechio

Published June 22, 2017 9:28pm ET

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Senate bill ditches Trump plan to privatize air traffic control — Advocates of privatization say the nation's air traffic control system is antiquated and has failed to competently spend millions of dollars provided for modernizing the system. (iStock by Getty Images) | Chalabala

Senate Republicans excluded a proposal to privatize the nation’s air traffic control system pushed by President Trump and some Republicans from a major Federal Aviation Authority reauthorization bill

The Senate bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration keeps the air traffic control system under the jurisdiction of the FAA, despite a June 5 push by Trump and House Transportation Committee Chairman Bill Shuster, R-Pa., to put it under the control of an independent board.

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