Ted Cruz blasts Pete Buttigieg, calls for more competent transportation official after FAA system outage
1:30 p.m. with House transportation chair citing 'huge vulnerability' in air traffic system.
Cruz demanded a full accounting to Congress on the mass outage, and called for reforms before lawmakers reauthorize the FAA this year. The last five-year reauthorization, passed in 2018, was a rare bipartisan measure adopted early in the Trump administration. just before Labor Day during a critical moment in talks between railroads and workers. President Joe Biden and Congress ended up intervening to avert a rail strike that could have sapped billions per day from the U.S. economy.Is Pete Buttigieg on vacation again?“When there’s an issue with the FAA that needs to get looked at, we’re going to own it, same as we ask airlines to own their companies’ and their operations. But the bottom line for us is always going to be safety,” Buttigieg said on CNN.
The Federal Aviation Administration, an agency within the Transportation Department, has not had a Senate-confirmed chief since last March. when Stephen Dickson, a former Delta Air Lines executive appointed by President Donald Trump, resignedBilly Nolen, the agency’s top safety official, has led the FAA as acting administrator since then.In July, Biden nominated Phillip Washington to the post.
The nomination reportedly stalled over a corruption probe involving contracts awarded during his tenure in Los Angeles, though Cruz and others have also questioned his limited aviation experience. He won the mayor’s job with fewer than 11,000 votes, and lost his only statewide race in a 25-point landslide.The Senatetwo weeks after Biden took office. Texas’ other Republican senator, John Cornyn, supported confirmation.
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