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‘You will have more of these’: Duffy warns about more FAA outages | CNN Politics

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November 13, 2026 • 12:00 PM
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Pressed by CNN’s Kristen Holmes on why his agency wasn’t prepared for such an outage, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy urged Congress to give him more money to improve systems and asserted there would be more air travel disruptions.

‘You will have more of these’: Duffy warns about more FAA outages | CNN Politics

Pressed by CNN’s Kristen Holmes on why his agency wasn’t prepared for such an outage, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy urged Congress to give him more money to improve systems and asserted there would be more air travel disruptions.

Pressed by CNN’s Kristen Holmes on why his agency wasn’t prepared for such an outage, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy urged Congress to give him more money to improve systems and asserted there would be more air travel disruptions.

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US grounds all flights after ‘communication issue’

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