Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy responds to Democrats blaming the Trump administration for recent plane crashes on 'The Will Cain Show.'

On my first day as secretary of Transportation, we witnessed the midair collision in Washington, D.C., that took 67 lives.

While the investigation is ongoing, the tragedy highlighted the urgent need to modernize our air traffic systems — and to move past the broken promises and political inertia of the past.

The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) unsustainable software systems that we’ve inherited are symptomatic of the endemic problems that plagued the Biden administration: a bloated bureaucracy that pushed overregulation instead of innovation, and radical DEI instead of merit. As a result, innovation stagnated and safety was sacrificed.

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Unlike my predecessors, I won’t run from difficult problems; I will fix them.

Crew retrieves wreckage of American Airlines flight 5342 in the Potomac River, Washington, DC, January 30, 2025. The plane was involved in a fatal collision with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter in January. (Leigh Green for Fox News Digital)

This week, I’ve invited software engineers from SpaceX to visit the FAA as part of a fact-finding mission to better understand the issues afflicting our air traffic systems. SpaceX is America’s leading space launch........

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