Trump to Ask Congress to Upgrade US Air Traffic Control System
February 6, 2025
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as posted by the channelPresident Donald Trump said he would speak to congressional leaders about legislation to create a US air traffic control system following a deadly crash at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, calling the current technology “obsolete.”
“We’re all going to sit down and do a great computerized system for our control towers, brand new, not pieced together,” Trump said Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.
The president said he would raise the issue with Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
“We have to get together” to pass “a single bill” to provide a better control system, the president said.
Trump said the US had spent “billions and billions of dollars trying to renovate an old, broken system, instead of just saying, cut it loose and let’s spend less money and build a great system.” The president said the work could be done by “two or three companies,” instead of what he said was a complex arrangement assembled by dozens of companies.
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