Trump breaks silence on US ground stop, demands more money from Congress
President Donald Trump on Sunday broke his silence on the nationwide ground stop that snarled airline travel this weekend, using the incident to push Congress on money to fully upgrade America’s air traffic control system. The Republican president has been conspicuously quiet on the ground stop since it began on Friday afternoon, instead issuing statements on social media about completely…
President Donald Trump broke his silence on Sunday regarding the nationwide ground stop that disrupted airline travel throughout the weekend. According to the South China Morning Post and the Winnipeg Free Press, the president had been quiet on the matter since the ground stop began on Friday afternoon.
Trump used the incident to urge Congress to provide funding to fully upgrade the air traffic control system in the United States.
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