Senate To Investigate Trump Administration For Potentially Botching Tech And Causing Ground Stop
Senate Democrats aren’t getting clear answers as to why the FAA ground stop happened, so they will be investigating to see if the incident was caused by the Trump administration.
The Trump administration still seems to be operating under the old rules of doing whatever it wanted, as it did before the midterm election.
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The ground stop that was declared yesterday, which brought air traffic in the United States to a halt, is still causing issues on Saturday morning: “As of 8:30 a.m. Eastern, more than 3,200 flights — or over 14 percent of those scheduled for Saturday — had already been canceled nationwide, according to Cirium, an aviation data firm. There were more than 22,000 flights scheduled to depart from U.S. airports on Saturday.”
The administration has said that the issue was caused by an upgrade to a communications system, but they have only provided vague references to what could have caused the incident, and yesterday’s administration press briefing did not help as cabinet officials Sean Duffy and Markwayne Mullin stood next to each other and provided contradictory explanations.
Senate Democrats want to know exactly what happened and how it will be prevented from happening in the future.
The days of the Trump administration mumbling some gibberish and then sweeping things under the rug are coming to an end.