Transportation Official
Appearances
Morning Wire
Budget Battles, Billion-Dollar Bets & ICE Busts | 5.15.25
Over the last four years, the last administration, they knew this was a problem. And by the way, during COVID, when people weren't flying, that was a perfect time to fix these problems.
Morning Wire
Budget Battles, Billion-Dollar Bets & ICE Busts | 5.15.25
They moved the standard. You had to get an 85 under Trump. They moved it to 80 percent in the test under Biden to be well qualified. So we've changed it to go. We want the best qualified. So if you get 90 and above on that test, you get a seat right away in the Air Traffic Control Academy.
Morning Wire
Budget Battles, Billion-Dollar Bets & ICE Busts | 5.15.25
So 2010, they passed the stimulus bill under the Obama era. And then you had $1.2 trillion in the last Congress. And so that's $2 trillion over 10 years. And sometimes you look around the country and go, where did $2 trillion go? Where is all the infrastructure? Why don't we have more? And I think a lot of this money gets eaten up in, again, the permitting and the consultants.
Morning Wire
Budget Battles, Billion-Dollar Bets & ICE Busts | 5.15.25
And I want to see more of the money go to turn dirt. That's what we have to focus on.