Delays and cancellations upended operations at Newark Liberty International Airport this week, after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said some air traffic controllers are taking time off following recent outages.
On April 28, air traffic controllers briefly lost communication, for about 90 seconds, with planes at Newark Airport.
The blackout and communication breakdown led to hundreds of flights being delayed or canceled. Three dozen flights were also diverted that day, said Aidan O'Donnell, the general manager of New Jersey airports, the New York Times reported. |
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday that the United States anticipates "a 10 percent baseline tariff to be in place for the foreseeable future" for countries across the globe amid trade tensions.
"We do expect a 10 percent baseline tariff to be in place for the foreseeable future," Lutnick told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union." "But don't buy the silly arguments that the U.S. consumer pays."
"Businesses, their job is to try to sell to the American consumer, and domestically produced products are not going to have that tariff," he added. |
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he plans to extend the retirement age for all air traffic controllers, increasing the mandatory age from 56 to 61 years old.
During an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," host Kristen Welker asked Duffy whether he had asked Congress to extend the retirement age. Duffy replied that Congress had already given him the authority to do so.
When asked if he would extend the retirement age, Duffy replied," One hundred percent." |
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| Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said he doesn't believe that the White House's suggested habeas corpus suspension will reach Congress.
During an appearance on NBC's "Meet The Press" on Sunday, host Kristen Welker mentioned statements made by White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller last week when he said President Trump and his team are "actively looking at" suspending habeas corpus as part of the administration's immigration crackdown. "I don't believe this is going to come to Congress," he said. "What I believe is the president is going to follow the law. He has said it repeatedly."
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Rep. Rob Menendez (D-N.J.) on Sunday went after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) over recent events at an ICE detention center in Newark, N.J.
"There were so many instances where this could've all been deescalated, but it was squarely in HSI, ICE's court, they chose not to," Menendez told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union." "They made this a violent scene that we were unfortunately all a part of." |
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