Ready for Takeoff? Trump Presses Congress to

On Sunday, the aftermath of a extended air journey ground stop was still percolating through the minds of American vacationers wanting at the Thanksgiving journey season. Also on Sunday, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy appeared on Fox News Sunday with host Shannon Bream to discuss about the issue — and what Congress has and hasn’t achieved the help get America’s getting old air-traffic system up to snuff.

.@SecDuffy: Congress gave us $12.5B, but they had been very particular on how we are able to spend it. There’s money for radar and radio, and it is being spent proper now — but Congress has not yet authorized funding for badly needed community, software program, or telecom modernization. https://t.co/M0UAU5smz3

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 15, 2026

The Secretary factors out:

Congress did give me $12.5 billion. But, they’re very particular on how we spend it. So, I’ve received money for radar. I’ve received money for radios. I am unable to order, and take the stuff off the shelf. This is a large order, from our suppliers. They have to construct radios. They have to construct radar. They have to construct digital flight strips. So, this money is all accounted for. It will all be deployed by the end of 2028. But I’ve no money for a new community. I haven’t got any new money to construct new software program to separate planes in the airspace. So, it is fascinating when they are saying, I’ve all this money, yes, but they (Congress) said particularly how I had to use that money. I need further money to do the extra work to keep the airspace protected. 

Unlike a lot of issues that Congress allocates money for, this is definitely the reliable prerogative of the federal authorities: Managing the protected and environment friendly journey of plane through the American airspace, which is just about the definition of interstate commerce. Our air-traffic systems, as last week reveals, are far from excellent, but Secretary Duffy makes a good level, one that too many Americans do not appear to perceive: Money is allotted by Congress for particular functions, and the pinnacle of a federal company, just like the FAA, can’t legally repurpose it. If Congress has not allotted money for new software program, then there may be no money for software program.

The president is not blissful about this, and took to his Truth Social account to say so.

https://t.co/YPcTZyv7iJ

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 15, 2026

If Congress approves the desperately needed money for Air Traffic Control, we are able to get it constructed rapidly and effectively. It would be the BEST SYSTEM anyplace in the World. Much of our current air control system is 50 years outdated – RIDICULOUS! We have already began the work, but it needs to be achieved all at once, not in drips and drabs. Congress must approve. The Biden Administration set it back years! President DJT

The current Congress, of course, only has a matter of days left to do something, and they’ve an terrible lot on their plate; a lot of which ought to already have been achieved, just like the SAVE America Act, but right here we’re. And the earlier administration? President Trump has some phrases for them as properly.

https://t.co/ustop4JL1E

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 15, 2026

The Biden Administration was an FAA catastrophe. Everything they touched turned unhealthy. Big money spent unwisely, making an outdated and damaged system worse than when they started. We have the information and plan for the Flight Control Systems, we need Congress to give the money, FAST! Our FAA is doing a great job, and is prepared to go. President DJT

Here’s the factor and I’m going to inform you; any funds for any upgrades to the nation’s air visitors control system can have to be achieved during what’s left of the time period of the 119th Congress, or they will not get achieved at all. The one hundred and twentieth Congress, being run by Democrats and which is able to last until the end of President Trump’s tenure, is not going to approve something that could possibly be perceived as a win for the Trump administration. They are consumed, nearly to a one, with Trump Derangement Syndrome, and not even the very important repairs to our getting old air-traffic control can break through that barrier. They would fairly put Americans at inconvenience or outright hazard than to give the Trump administration a win, and that is a natural-born fact.

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