Transport Minister Sean Duffy explains the reason for canceling the Newark trip to the wife

Under the current administration, what constitutes a bad airport has taken a completely new meaning. Although the Newark Liberty Airport was never preferred for anyone, the chain of interruption and workers’ lack of concern matters. But do not worry. Transport Minister Sean Duffy insists that Newark is completely safe. And his decision to change his wife’s journey to avoid Newark? Well, Duffy says everything was removed from the context.

After the equipment On Sunday It resulted in a 45 -minute land station, and Dofi went Meet To control damage. When asked if it was safe to fly inside and outside Newark, Duffy said: “I get out of Newark all the time, my family comes out of Newark.” But as Gizmodo I mentioned earlierWhen she appeared on a conservative radio program the next day, Duffy said: “My wife was going out from Newark tomorrow. Her journey turned to Laguordia.”

At the meeting of the Credit Committee in the House of Representatives yesterday regarding the financial budget of the Ministry of Transport for the year 2026, Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman (DN.J) indicated Duffy’s comments. I suggested that Duffy “converting his wife from Newark Airport to Laguordia out of a sense of safety.”

“This is not true. This is partially true,” said Dove, who was witnessing at the time. per PoliticoDuffy added that his wife was flying to an event. Since Newark suffers from a great delay, Duffy has moved her journey to Laguardia “not for safety but because I needed her journey to fly. She had to get there.”

It is true that Newark has had a lot of delay recently. It is not difficult to follow the source either. For example, interruption on Sunday Produce In more than 250 delay and at least 80 cancellation. Sunday was not the only power outage. On April 28, radar screens and radio He died for 30 secondsIt caused some traffic monitors in the tour to take a shock leave. Then on May 9, screens Darkness went again For about 90 seconds. Along with power outages, Newark deals A large shortage of employees.

Throughout all of this, Duffy prompted blame for Biden management. During yesterday’s session, Davi He said“We did not have 3000 control units in the last 100 days. There were four years ago as nothing was done,” despite the warnings from the International Energy Agency groups. But for all NBC, the National Air traffic monitors Association says that the number of control units throughout the country has risen and has remained fixed within the framework of the Biden administration. In addition, the former Minister of Transport, Beit Batjij, Additional financing request For air traffic monitors last year, Republicans in the House of Representatives liked.

The Trump administration attack on the point, however, was well documented. In February, Hundreds of FAA staff It was launched amid Trump’s collective workers. Although Duffy claimed that no person with a “critical safety” position was launched, Dave Spereo, president of the Federation who represents FAA, said: “All of these people are part of the safety network. The higher their number other than there, the more difficult it becomes more difficult to make safety.”

However, Davi insists that everything is fine. And if it is not good, this is not his mistake.

At yesterday’s session, MP Steve Wark (R-ARK) pressed more Duffy about flight safety, “How many departures can you deal with without erosion of the ability to carry out a safe and effective task?”

“We are working through some ideas now on how to simplify the section,” Dofi said. “Listen, we can do more less, sir, and if we do less, this means that we will have additional money, I think, through this committee to restore the infrastructure that many of us want in our societies.”