Variety reports that a Federal Aviation Administration ground stop halted U.S. air traffic on 13 November 2026, prompting WME executive chairman Ari Emanuel to say on X that former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg made "zero progress" modernizing the FAA and left "a failing system in place." Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who said he did not anticipate the outage and urged Congress for modernization funds, faced pushback from more than 3,000 commenters asking why Emanuel blamed a prior administration; Buttigieg, stranded at Denver airport, said of Duffy's press conference that one "can just write down the comic book asterisk swearing characters."