Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is facing intense backlash online after repeatedly blaming the Biden administration for recent air traffic control issues.

"That they would have had the wrong email for an air traffic controller versus someone else in the FAA. No, I'm not gonna fire someone over that,” Duffy replied. The post ‘Nobody’s Been Fired?’ Senate Dem Stunned Trump Admin Didn’t Punish Anyone For Pushing All Air Traffic Controls to Quit first appeared on Mediaite.

The post from Trump comes after hundreds of flights were canceled and delayed at Newark Liberty International Airport over the past week, in part due to air traffic control staffing issues.

Delta CEO Ed Bastian said air traffic control systems in the U.S. are so antiquated it actually takes longer to fly certain routes today than it did in the 1950s. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy even compared the old equipment to something you’d see on the set of Apollo 13.

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