Greene Blasts Duffy, Mullin for Using FAA Ground Stop to Demand $50B
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene accused Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin of exploiting a rare nationwide FAA ground stop to pressure Congress for $50 billion in emergency funding. Greene called the joint press briefing a 'shakedown' and alleged the outage was a cyberattack, contradicting officials who cited a telecommunications overload. While the administration demands immediate funding to modernize aging air traffic control systems, Democrats and some Republicans are demanding answers on why the system failed and how the government will prevent future outages.