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Sean Duffy: “I inherited a system that was dilapidated.”

Featuring: Sean Duffy, Republican | Secretary of Transportation | National

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Transportation Sec. Duffy on upgrades to air traffic control, enabling commercial space competition

Published | Video Starts at 09:24

We diminish the tax dollar that could build roads and bridges because he put all of these constraints around it because he was running for president. In regard to air traffic control, I inherited a system that was dilapidated. And so we have to step in and recognize what they didn't do and fix it. Pete Buttigieg should have seen that and should have started the process before I got there. (09:24–09:28)

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Asserts that the air traffic control system was in poor condition when he took over.

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