Aviation Safety Caucus Chair Nick Langworthy, left, said Biden administration funding policies helped fuel the current air traffic controller shortage. (Getty Images)
It comes after a blackout at Newark Liberty International Airport reportedly caused a roughly 90-second outage to its air traffic control screens.
And earlier this year, a military helicopter collided with a passenger plane coming from Wichita, Kansas, in a deadly incident just off the shores of the nation's capital.
Langworthy clarified that he does not believe DEI policies "necessarily" directly hit ATC.
"It's what they spent the money [on]. I mean, you know, there's infrastructure projects, ones in my backyard, where they want to bury and tunnel over our main artery in the town because it's going to reunite a community somehow," he said.
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Langworthy vowed to work with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, pictured here, on getting funding for ATC modernization. (Getty Images)
Langworthy said he would help push for as much funding as needed to meet the issue.
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"I will absolutely lead the fight for [Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy] and the president on their plan to modernize our aircraft," he vowed.
"When Secretary Duffy and the president roll this out as a spending priority, we have to frontload this process. We have to get them the resources that they need to get this done, because the flying public – everyone's lives hang in the balance on this."
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