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Sean Duffy: “It is enough to operate the FAA. Yes, but we need this…”

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

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: Safety is the number one priority

Published | Video Starts at 05:23

So look, I mean, let's talk about the budget of the Department of Transportation, because the requested budget, 147.1 billion, 22 billion goes to the FAA. But is that enough? So It is enough to operate the FAA. Yes, but we need this additional money because dollars have not been put into the modernization effort. And so if you want to build a brand new air traffic control system, again, that's the hardware of, of, of, of radios and voice switches and radar, and we're … (05:23–05:33)

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Asserts that the current budget is sufficient for operations but not for modernization.

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