Sean Duffy responds to air traffic control crisis

Early in Joe Biden's administration, Congress passed a bill that Biden signed into law creating a ton of infrastructure. It's now called the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program. It seems frivolous to have spent $7,500,000,000 on charging stations for EVs, aka Electric Vehicles, especially in light of Friday's nationwide ground stop of U.S. air travel. During the reporting, Americans learned that parts of our air traffic control system were of 1950s vintage.

Why didn't the Biden administration use this bipartisan infrastructure bill to start modernizing America's air traffic control system instead of wasting the money on EV charging stations? Spending money on building charging stations for a fleet of cars THAT WILL NEVER GET BUILT isn't foolish. It's stupid! From the first day of the second Trump administration, President Trump has prioritized rebuilding our nation's air traffic control system.

Within a day or 2 of Sean Duffy getting confirmed, 2 major aviation tragedies happened. Rather than whine, Duffy immediately reached out to Elon Musk for his advice:

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he spoke with Trump administration advisor and CEO of SpaceX Elon Musk about reforming the country’s airspace and raised concerns about the military’s use of helicopters in Washington, D.C.’s crowded airspace after a deadly collision last week.

"I had a conversation with Elon Musk yesterday, pretty remarkable guy. He thinks differently than I think probably a lot of us do, but he has access to the best technological people, the best engineers in the world," Duffy said Wednesday at a roadway transportation event in Washington. "We’re going to remake our airspace, and we’re going to do it quickly."

This is the difference between leaders like Duffy and bureaucrats like Pete Buttiegieg. While Pothole Pete was taking time off from his job as Biden's transportation secretary, Secretary Duffy is remodeling the U.S. air traffic control system. Secretary Duffy lets the press and Congress have it:

Here's another great question for politicians: Why was $7,500,000,000 spent on building EV recharging stations for vehicles that hadn't been but money wasn't spent on an air traffic control system that millions of people rely on daily? Sec Duffy has shown that he's using the money already appropriated well while updating the air trafficd control system quickly:

Over the past year, we’ve put our $12.5 billion down payment from Congress to work overhauling America’s air traffic control infrastructure - 70% of telecom lines upgraded with high-speed fiber -25 towers upgraded from 1970s paper strips to electronic flight strips - 143 towers equipped with new surface awareness tech - 469 radio sites modernized We are building safely and quickly but the job isn’t finished

— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) November 14, 2026

Let's face it. Sec. Duffy is doing what he's supposed to be doing at the pace he's supposed to be doing things at.