Duffy blasts Biden, Buttigieg for ignoring
report about failing air traffic control
system: 'DID NOTHING!'
Fox News,
by
Andrea Margolis
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
5/6/2025 6:54:06 PM
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called out the Biden administration for allegedly neglecting a government agency's report about the poor state of the air traffic control system.
In an X post on Tuesday, Duffy shared an excerpt from a report published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) entitled "Air Traffic Control: FAA Actions Are Urgently Needed to Modernize Aging Systems." The report was published on Sept. 24, 2024.
"A government watchdog warned Biden & Buttigieg about the failing air traffic control system," Duffy wrote.
"Look at this report. They knew the air traffic control system was strained AND STILL DID NOTHING!"
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 5/6/2025 7:11:14 PM (No. 1946222)
The Demented Fuhrer - "sharp as a tack"
Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg - probably snuggling with wife/husband, Chasten James Glezman Buttigieg
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/6/2025 8:42:33 PM (No. 1946247)
But they did do something, they went to DEI.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
4Liberty2020 5/6/2025 8:52:35 PM (No. 1946255)
Buttigieg was too busy on maternity leave with his husband and twin babies.
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The Buttster was busy “chest-feeding”…… whatever that is.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Msquared112 5/6/2025 9:05:07 PM (No. 1946261)
Booty was among the top two laziest federal employees in the country. He did zero. Kamala was the other one.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Kafka2 5/6/2025 9:21:18 PM (No. 1946270)
As Obama said of Biden, “It is impossible to over estimate Joe’s ability to F—k things up.” Like his mentor, the same can be said of Buttigieg. The need to upgrade air traffic has been reported for several years. The Sept. 2024 was that the need to upgrade ATC was urgent. But, of course, Biden and Buttigieg did nothing.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
synchronicity 5/6/2025 9:24:43 PM (No. 1946271)
Cut them some slack, we all knew that one was out of his mind and the other only had the first 4 letters of his last name on his mind - we got what was voted for by those at ~98.6 F as well as those at ambient temperature.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
anniebc 5/7/2025 5:33:16 AM (No. 1946315)
The left says the failures of air traffic control are because there are not enough people to do the job. They say this about every government agency that has seen RIFs.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
goodbyedems 5/7/2025 6:17:00 AM (No. 1946328)
So what exactly is the consequence of Buttigieg's ineptitude? NADA! Bat blind, serial liar, "secure border" Mayorkas? NADA ......the whole inept &$#@ Biden administration from top to bottom! NADA!! All of them collectively, 'in your face' BS.....literally getting people killed. NADA!!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
govlawyer 5/7/2025 7:32:59 AM (No. 1946350)
Perhaps someone should dust off Ronaldus Magnus' playbook from the PATCO strike.....he managed to put military controllers in place until he could train enough civilians to man the stations after he broke the strike.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/7/2025 7:56:56 AM (No. 1946363)
The most that our former Secretary of Transportation ever did was to ride a bicycle for a couple of blocks to prove that he knew what transportation was. Biden crashed his own bike when he spotted a little girl he wanted to sniff and they took it away from him. Get ready for "Pete for POTUS 2028"
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/7/2025 8:17:50 AM (No. 1946374)
Exactly, #2. This is what happens when you prioritize hiring people who are blind, mentally ill, intelligence challenged, too short to reach the computer screens or completely paralyzed. While I have great sympathy for the handicapped, they don’t belong in an air traffic control tower where thousands of lives are at stake.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
red1066 5/7/2025 8:45:44 AM (No. 1946396)
Stop with the blaming of Biden on air safety control systems. The air traffic control system has needed to be replaced with newer systems for decades. When Reagan fired the air traffic controllers back in 1981, the control systems were outdated then. This issue has been passed along for more than seven administrations, and it's only gotten worse. I know of at least three administrations that made big public announcements in the past that money will be spent to upgrade the air traffic control systems, and the public and controllers are still waiting for that upgrade.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Zigrid 5/7/2025 10:07:16 AM (No. 1946428)
Not a surprise....the democrats who were in charge for 20 years didn't care how to handle the control towers...they only wanted the power to control the folks....WE peasants were to do their bidding and shut our mouths....God forbids you should complain...you were labeled an extremist and investigated....as for Peter Paul and Mary Buttigieg...he wasn't doing his job...as transportation secretary...he was busy being a gay politician.....
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Trapper 5/7/2025 10:24:53 AM (No. 1946447)
They could not be distracted from their primary mission of shoveling hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars out the back door to their friends.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 5/7/2025 12:46:33 PM (No. 1946531)
Democrat politicians are very good at doing nothing.
They talk a lot, pose for pictures on occasion but rarely are they looking to actually fix a problem.
The comedian George Carlin once said (about 30 years ago and I'm paraphrasing), the homeless problem, well it will be fixed as soon as they (politicians) figure out how to make money off of it.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/7/2025 2:07:54 PM (No. 1946553)
This Air Traffic Control issue is easily explained. The volume of travelers has increased greatly. So have the number of aircraft that are in the air at any moment in time. Buttplugs was in way over his/its head. What a total failure he/it was in addressing this reality.
Air traffic controllers are working harder than ever before to keep the air transportation system moving post-Buttplugs. While, yes, it is maxing out the human factor - the ability to manage aircraft in real time, we must never rely on AI or computers to tell a human pilot what to do. Human pilots would have no issue in telling the AI controller to go to hell if a questionable order is given.
My older son is a Captain for a major US carrier, and he said there is no way on this beautiful earth he would ever take orders from an AI computer-generated voice. Only human controllers have the smarts, common sense, and the human condition bred into them.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Ned Scott 5/7/2025 5:26:48 PM (No. 1946669)
I wonder if “Mayor” Pete has the chutzpah to even run for the Democrat nomination for POTUS in 2028?
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My dad was an ATC who retired in 2001. He used to complain that the computer systems that they used were ancient even then, including some systems that still used vacuum tubes!!