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Sean Duffy: “SEPTA... a system that's $200 million in the hole.”

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

WATCH LIVE: Sean Duffy Holds Press Briefing About The Government Shutdown's Impact On Airports

Published October 24, 2025 | Video Starts at 26:10

Not only the management of the operations of the system, but the finances that you created as well. Yeah, so I am. So this is a Philly issue. I am concerned about SEPTA... a system that's $200 million in the hole. we see delays, but do we see fires? I mean, that's, I mean, that's a huge problem. Right. On trains and on buses. (26:10–26:17)

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Asserts that SEPTA is facing a $200 million deficit.

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“We're about 2 to 3,000 air traffic controllers short in the system.”
WATCH LIVE: Sean Duffy Holds Press Briefing About The Government Shutdown's Impact On Airports | Uploaded October 24, 2025 | 17:04-17:09
“The average on a day is about 5% of our delays would come from staffing shortages with air traffic controllers.”
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“We've gone up as high as 53% of the delays have been because of staffing shortages.”
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“Our air traffic controllers aren't going to get paid during the shutdown.”
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“They [air traffic controllers] were paid about 10 days ago.”
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“They [air traffic controllers] just got notice yesterday on what their pay is going to be for this coming Tuesday, and they got noticed that…”
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“In that paycheck, they [air traffic controllers] got 90% of their pay because most of that pay period fell into September.”
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“If we don't have enough controllers, if we have controllers that are more stressed and less able to do the job, we pay close attention to…”
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“We've had different areas of the airspace, different TRACON centers and towers that have had staffing shortages.”
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“I have developed a plan to supercharge air traffic controllers, get more of them into the system.”
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“We're supercharging air traffic controllers, bringing the best and the brightest, per the direction of President Trump.”
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“We're getting word back right now from our academy in Oklahoma City that some of our young controllers in the academy and some who have been…”
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“I find that to be unacceptable. I have more value for our controllers that I think we're seeing from the Congress.”
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“The airlines know how important air traffic control is to keeping the sky safe and airplanes moving.”
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“The Democrats have shut down the government.”
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“I don't want to see Democrat shutdowns drive pain to the American people.”
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“I've asked the governor to step up and lead to fix the system, to provide the leadership and the money and the resources and the management…”
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“We're about a week to two weeks away from running out of money to pay those [academy] students.”
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“Our instructors already are not paid and they're still showing up to teach.”
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“I've already seen young people drop out of the academy because they're concerned about going into a business where they may not get their…”
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“We got $12.5 billion in the big beautiful bill. I need 31.5 in total.”
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