{"id":109671,"date":"2026-11-15T01:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T01:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/upgrade-work-blamed-for-nationwide-flight-shutdown-duffy-says\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T01:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T01:33:27","slug":"upgrade-work-blamed-for-nationwide-flight-shutdown-duffy-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/upgrade-work-blamed-for-nationwide-flight-shutdown-duffy-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade Work Blamed for Nationwide Flight Shutdown, Duffy Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>With flights grounded for nearly five hours Friday evening, Americans heard from the homeland security secretary. They heard from the transportation secretary. They did not hear from President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>At least not about the nationwide ground stop, the first major crisis the federal government has faced since the midterm elections. The halt grounded or delayed some 10,000 flights from coast to coast and confirmed what experts have been warning for years: that the nation\u2019s flight safety system is perilously fragile.<\/p>\n<div id=\"_R_p6j7am_\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">Instead, the president, who remained behind the scenes at the White House, posted messages to social media that night on other topics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">\u201cMAKE OUR ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY GREAT AGAIN!\u201d he wrote on Truth Social, in the middle of the crisis, calling for tax incentives to lure movie production back to the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">The absence of Mr. Trump, who has made few public appearances since Democrats swept the midterms, seemed notable enough that Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, sought to assure the nation in the heat of the crisis on Friday night that the president was fully engaged, if not in his more common spot in front of the cameras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is what President Trump does,\u201d Mr. Mullin said in a news conference. \u201cHe puts leaders in place, and he allows them to lead. They even ask, you know, why is the president not talking? It\u2019s because he\u2019s allowed Secretary Duffy and us to go out there and explain to you what took place.\u201d He was referring to Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, who appeared beside Mr. Mullin on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">By Saturday morning, Mr. Trump still hadn\u2019t commented on the ground stop. Instead, he began attacking Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, a Democrat and political rival, over his commutation of death penalty sentences for more than 500 inmates, <a class=\"css-povzk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/11\/05\/us\/california-death-row-newsom-commutation.html\" title=\"\">an action the governor took more than a week ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">It is an old strategy in politics to let underlings be the bearers of bad news. Mr. Trump\u2019s decision not to engage in public on a crisis with cascading effects across the country comes as Democrats in Congress have already vowed to investigate the administration\u2019s handling of the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">With Mr. Trump steering clear of the topic on Friday night, Mr. Mullin and Mr. Duffy appeared at times to contradict each other as they tried to explain the breakdown that affected tens of thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">Transportation Department officials, in particular, were caught off guard when Mr. Mullin told reporters that the meltdown had occurred because new technology upgrades had \u201coverwhelmed the older system,\u201d according to two people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">At the time, department officials had not made a determination of what precisely had overloaded the antiquated system and caused the meltdown to spiral across the country. Mr. Duffy also tried to gently redirect after Mr. Mullin\u2019s remarks, stressing that old equipment, not new technology, was what had overloaded and failed. On Saturday, Mr. Duffy told reporters that a routine router replacement in a remote area had triggered the nationwide outages but officials could not yet say whether it had been because of a faulty part or a contractor error.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">In a statement on Saturday, Mr. Duffy said: \u201cWe\u2019re deeply grateful for Secretary Mullin and his team\u2019s partnership as we worked through this challenging time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">When asked where Mr. Trump was during the ground stop, the officials defended the president and heaped praise on him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">\u201cWell, the two of us have talked to him,\u201d Mr. Duffy said. \u201cHe\u2019s in. I\u2019ve talked to him on the phone. I\u2019ve talked to him in the Oval. So has Markwayne.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">As the agency leaders addressed the media, Stephen Miller, the newly installed White House chief of staff, and Steven Cheung, the communications director, watched off to the side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">Asked for comment, the White House referred to the comments of Mr. Duffy and Mr. Mullin.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-i2069a ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-1y6rqsj e13ogyst0\">Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy\u2019s explanation of the stoppage on Friday at times appeared to conflict with Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin\u2019s account. <\/span><span class=\"css-3hmc0r e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"iqSOia_accessibilityLabel\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Tierney L. Cross for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">Mr. Duffy said Congress was to blame for the ground stop because the legislative branch had failed to fund updated technology for the Federal Aviation Administration. Lawmakers have privately questioned how efficiently the F.A.A. has spent money already appropriated, congressional aides say, and Democrats say the administration has prioritized issues like deportations over air safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">\u201cI want $50 billion,\u201d Mr. Duffy said. \u201cPresident Trump is a builder. He\u2019s going to build this network and deliver for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">He added: \u201cAnd when Secretary Duffy said he\u2019s the greatest president we\u2019ve had. You\u2019ve never had a builder and a leader like President Trump lead this nation, have a vision and put the team together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">Ever since Republicans were routed in the midterm elections, Mr. Trump has been keeping somewhat of a lower profile. Before the midterms, he embarked on a blitz of rallies across the country in which he spoke to the public nearly every night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">This week, he appeared in public sparingly: once at an impromptu appearance with the U.F.C. president Dana White as a follow-up to a post that Mr. Trump <a class=\"css-povzk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/11\/10\/us\/politics\/trump-midterm-elections-chaos.html\" title=\"\">acknowledged was an attempt to distract from bad news cycles<\/a>, and at a speech on Veterans Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">Former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, who was once a close ally of the president\u2019s, noted that Mr. Trump has never been shy in putting his full focus on his construction projects, such as the attempted repairs to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. But she noted that he seemed unengaged during the F.A.A. crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">\u201cTrump constantly railed about fixing the reflection pool so much that he used the last day before massively losing the midterms to give a speech in front of the reflection pool bragging about he fixed the reflection pool,\u201d she wrote on social media. But in a crisis that led to Mr. Duffy\u2019s call for billions to upgrade air traffic systems, she wrote, \u201cPresident Trump doesn\u2019t even issue so much as a Truth Social post.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">She added: \u201cWhile everyone was freaking out thinking we are under some sort of attack, Trump didn\u2019t even bother to address the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">On Saturday afternoon, Mr. Trump finally publicly acknowledged the matter, but only obliquely and through another\u2019s words. He posted a quote attributed to Senator John Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, that appeared to reference a desire for more funding for the F.A.A.: \u201cThe FAA Funding should be a stand alone Bill \u2014 We should get Democrat support for that!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">With the crisis largely over, though with many flights still canceled and disruption rife, the president posted again about the need for tax credits for the movie industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-16sk652 etfikam0\">Maggie Haberman<!-- -->, <!-- -->Karoun Demirjian<!-- --> and <!-- -->Kate Kelly<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/11\/14\/us\/faa-nationwide-ground-stop-flights\/democrats-congress-faa\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With flights grounded for nearly five hours Friday evening, Americans heard from the homeland security secretary. 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