Trump breaks silence on US ground stop, demands more money from Congress
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from South China Morning Post · North America
President Donald Trump on Sunday broke his silence on the nationwide ground stop that snarled airline travel this weekend, using the incident to push Congress on money to fully upgrade America’s air traffic control system. The Republican president has been conspicuously quiet on the ground stop since it began on Friday afternoon, instead issuing statements on social media about completely different topics as frustrated passengers were left stranded at airports and his government scrambled with...
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