"We were given $12.5 billion as a down payment in the Big, Beautiful bill. We are going to rebuild our telecom network. We are pulling every string to get more air traffic controllers trained up, more air traffic controllers that are trained to stay on the job and not retire."
REMEMBER: They said Trump caused the shortage. Another narrative, decimated. It turns how, he's FIXING it, not causing it. He's cleaning up their mess.
"The problem, was that the last administration, Buttigieg and Biden, they KNEW this was a problem. And they did nothing to fix it."
"Before I got this job, President Trump said, 'we are going to fix our air traffic control system, and we are going to make it the best in the world and function for the American people.' And that's exactly what we're doing."
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