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Sean Duffy: “The Congress gave us $12.5 billion as a down payment for…”

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

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Sean Duffy tours Duluth airport, touts air traffic control funding [RAW]

Published | Video Starts at 01:38

And so I'm grateful for Pete's help on this. But in one beautiful bill, or the great big beautiful bill, whatever the name is supposed to be, The Congress gave us $12.5 billion as a down payment for upgrading the [air traffic control] system. Now, it's not all that we need. We need 31.5 billion. But the 12.5 billion that we do have is going to go to new radar, new voice switches, new radios, new telecom. (01:38–01:53)

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Asserts that Congress allocated $12.5 billion for air traffic control system upgrades.

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