And so I want to lay out how we got here, what's going on in Newark, and what our plan is to actually fix it under this Trump administration, who, by the way, fixes problems, doesn't cause problems. So how we got here? In July of 2024, the Biden Buttigieg FAA moved control of the New York Newark airspace from New York to Philadelphia. Tower or the Philadelphia TRACON. As part of the move, the STARS system that processes radar data for Newark remained based in New York. (00:48–01:01)
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Asserts that the FAA under Biden and Buttigieg moved airspace control from New York to Philadelphia in July 2024.
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