Petulant Sean Duffy Refuses to Apologize for FAA Ground Stop But Demands More Money

It’s giving hostage demand vibes.

Transportation Secretary (from Fox News straight to the White House) Sean Duffy admitted again on Sunday that he doesn’t know what caused the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) rare nationwide ground stop on November 13, yet he refused to apologize and even demanded cash to fix it.

Duffy refused to apologize for the nationwide ground stop. In fact, say it with me, he blames previous administrations for their “lack of investment.”

Sure, it happened on his watch, but you can’t blame him because he is “moving at an incredible speed.”

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“It happened on my watch, but we have to be clear. I am moving at an incredible speed that no one has done at the FAA or in decades, and I’m proud of the work we’re doing, the attention we’re bringing to this issue,” Duffy said on NBC News’ Meet the Press. “But I can’t apologize for what was passed off to us, and I can’t blame Republicans or Democrats because it’s all of them.”

“Why they didn’t do that I don’t know, but they gave me a system that needs to be fixed, and President Trump and I are going to fix it,” he added.

It’s like Duffy thinks he can rewrite history and no one is going to fact-check him. Joe Biden actually tried to address our nation’s crumbling infrastructure, only to have hundreds of Republican lawmakers roundly mock him for it and vote no on his bipartisan bill.

So Duffy’s asking for money his party deemed “wasteful spending”, “adding to the national debt” and “socialist programs” when a Democrat asked for it, while he blames previous administrations for not investing more money in a problem he can’t identify and won’t take responsibility for.

President Joe Biden’s bill allocated $25 billion total for the FAA and air travel infrastructure. More than 200 House Republicans and 30 Senate Republicans mocked it in 2021 when they voted against the Democrats’ $1.2 trillion infrastructure package.

Mocking the bill didn’t stop those same Republicans from taking credit for the work done and paid for by a bill they mocked, though, and this gets to the heart of the problem: There is no way to govern with the modern day Republican Party, because they have only one value: Power.

If they are not in power, they refuse to be a part of solving any problems and when they are in power, they grab cash from the taxpayers like drunken frat boys and hand it to their buddy’s company and then point fingers at Democrats when it fails, even when they’ve been in office for nearly two years and have complete control over the government, as Duffy’s party does.

Duffy Demands Cash Even as He Admits He Doesn’t Know What Went Wrong

Duffy blamed previous administrations even though he admitted that he does not know what went wrong.