The resulting chaos from yesterday’s nationwide ground stop is continuing while the Trump Administration is demanding tens of millions of dollars to ensure this does not happen again.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a nationwide ground stop on Friday afternoon due to Air Traffic Control communication issues.
The FAA ordered all US airports to ground stop. No flights were allowed to depart, but flights already in the air were allowed to land.
The ground stop was lifted hours later.
But this is cold comfort to roughly 1.5 million travelers who remain stranded at airports across the country.
Per FlightAware, over 4,000 flights have been canceled so far, while thousands more have been delayed.
These numbers will only continue to increase throughout the day. Moreover, it may be several days before things return to normal at America’s airports.
While Americans suffer, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is requesting a whopping $50 billion in emergency funding from Congress to fix the U.S. air traffic control (ATC) and airspace systems.
Otherwise, these types of failures will continue.
What went down was old, right? It was the old legacy equipment. It failed,” Duffy said during a Friday night press conference. “And listen, it’s going to continue to fail.”
“This is an emergency. I want Congress to give us emergency funding,” Duffy continued. “This is bipartisan. This is American. I want $50 billion.”
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Today’s nationwide ground stop happened because our air traffic control system is operating on DECADES-OLD, analog equipment that simply cannot compete with the demands of the 21st century.
@FAANews is modernizing this aging infrastructure thanks to a $12.5 billion down payment secured by President Trump, but that isn’t ENOUGH.
@POTUS is asking Congress to give us the resources to build a state-of-the-art air traffic control system. Let’s not do a patchwork fix to a system that’s critical for every single family.
It’s time for Congress to act. Give us the money to fix it. PASS THE MODERN SKIES ACT NOW.
— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) November 14, 2026
As Fox Business notes, Duffy said the Trump administration had already secured $12.5 billion to modernize the FAA.
Duffy added that this newer equipment installed had experienced fewer failures than the older infrastructure.
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