Sean Duffy on the FAA: I Need to Build Fast, But the Number One Priority Is to Build Safely

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DUFFY: "So first off, the gao is also said, and it said this for over five, seven years that this system is going to start to show its age and it has to be modernized. And so they‘ve said both things. And so what I‘ve done is said, listen, I need to build fast. But the number one priority is to build safely, which is what we‘re doing. But let‘s go to what happened in el dorado, Arkansas. We have an we had an old copper wire. The the telecom provider was taking it out of service. It was obsolete. So I actually had to do this work. Moving from copper to fiber. And by the way, this work is done thousands of times by our partners at at l3harris. But around the world, thousands, tens of thousands of times, these transmissions have been made. The question is, why on this time did the routers start to flood my network? And I have to get an answer for that. But what we‘re doing is moving quickly. But we‘re moving safely because of the age of the network. Dana, there hasn‘t been investment in this network for decades, and we‘ve known that as Americans in transportation and FAA, we‘ve. It‘s the worst kept secret in Washington. And the question becomes, when do we make the investments? When do we actually do the job to deliver for the American people? And what I think right now is President Trump has been pushing this for two years, but this is the most bipartisan idea in Washington right now because everyone agrees to it. And when everyone agrees, shouldn‘t we then take action? Let‘s pass a bill and give us the resources to finish this job."