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Sean Duffy: “We got that money [$12.5 billion] before the shutdown.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 02:48

So where you see the system right now, again, we didn't have the money to pay air traffic controllers. But the big beautiful bill from President Trump gave us $12.5 billion. We got that money [$12.5 billion] before the shutdown. And so we've already been working on laying fiber lines, replacing the copper. We're about a week or two away from picking our integrator. The FAA does a lot of things on safety. (02:48–02:51)

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Asserts that $12.5 billion was received before the shutdown.

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