In lieu of fixing the ever-present points on the Federal Aviation Administration, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has shifted his focus to extra urgent issues, like inside adorning.
Duffy took day trip of his Thursday afternoon to publicly announce that he’s shifting a portray of Jesus up a number of flooring on the U.S. Service provider Marine Academy.
“We are moving Jesus out of the basement!” he exclaimed in a video posted on X.
Reveling within the unusual victory, Duffy advised the digital camera that he labored with the college to maneuver the portray again to a “place of prominence” after being saved within the basement.
Whereas some could also be cheering about Duffy’s redecorating venture, these stranded in airports ready for the Trump administration to give you an answer to the ongoing air security disaster is perhaps much less enthused.
Late final month, Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport confronted a number of operational meltdowns that precipitated air site visitors controllers to briefly lose radar pictures and communication with all aircrafts. And on Monday, Denver had a equally terrifying outage, with air site visitors controllers dropping communication for 90 seconds.
Whereas vacationers are praying for protected landings—or just hoping that their flights depart within the first place—Duffy was referred to as out for rerouting his family away from airports experiencing outages.
On Wednesday, Duffy defended his choice to maneuver his spouse from a flight departing Newark to a different leaving LaGuardia Airport in New York.
“With all the delays at Newark—my wife had to do an event and she was in the city of New York, and so I did—I moved her from Newark to LaGuardia not for safety but because I needed her flight to fly. She had to get there,” he stated throughout a Home Appropriations Committee listening to.
However as Duffy faces the apparent failings of his personal division, he appears to be following within the footsteps of his boss: refusing to take any accountability.
Fairly than admitting that the Trump administration’s slashing of the FAA has created an enormous air site visitors controller scarcity, Duffy is pointing the finger elsewhere.
“The infrastructure bill under Joe Biden, $1.2 trillion,” Duffy advised Fox Information host Martha MacCallum final week. “They sent only $5 billion to fix air traffic control. And of the $5 billion, Pete Buttigieg spent less than $1 billion to fix this problem. Instead, he was focused on racist roads and changing the name of ‘cockpit’ to ‘flight deck’ or ‘air man’ to ‘aeronaut.’ Stupid stuff.”
Silly stuff, certainly.
