ground-stop-timeline.pdf
House Appropriations Committee Democrats lay out a timeline blaming Secretary Duffy for the November 2026 ground stop: Congress provided $14.4 billion for FAA modernization, OMB froze $5 billion of it, Duffy deployed an AI tool still in testing, and had spent only $5 billion while asking first for $30 billion, then $50 billion the next day. They say he stalled controllers' pay raise, and that ASI's PAC donated to his son-in-law's campaign.
