Gee, if only someone had the power to do something about it during the last two years.

Yesterday, in the aftermath of the FAA nationwide groundstop:

Senator Eric Schmitt
[November 13, 2026]

No more kicking the can. If today proves anything, it’s that we need to update our air traffic control system & rebuild our airport infrastructure.
Our Modern Skies Act gives the FAA the resources it needs to update old systems.
The Senate needs to take up our bill next week.
[….]

Some of the responses:

Y’all (ALL the GOP) PASSED your Big UGLY Bill that gave the FAA $12.5B and the Epstein class over $1TRILLION in tax cuts… who are you BS’ing?

Do you have any poster boards to explain this, or can we just say it is a real Schmitt show

No problem- just call Markwayne, your friendly PLUMBER. 😂

dumb plumbers don’t help

Thanks, Republicans, for your gross incompetence

I am not worried – I feel safe knowing two reality show personalities and a plumber are in charge

let’s build a ballroom instead 🙄

and an arch.

and more monuments to name after Trump! 🙄

Arch,ballroom,golf course,reflection pool? Now it’s time for aviation?

What have you been doing for 2 years?

complaining about Biden. Didn’t that help you?

making up accusations against jack smith

And, Duffy’s been on a summer-long road trip reality show!!!!
I mean…do they think we don’t notice this shit????

Say it in a poster-board.

And why are we just now figuring this out?

we’re not. This has been known for years, but Congress just kept kicking the can down the road like they do with everything.

“Gee, if only someone had the power to do something about it during the last two years.”

but we have plenty of money to give tax breaks to billionaires.

and 52 days to fix it all before most are booted out of office! when they’ve had TWO UNPRODUCTIVE YEARS to do something. Anything!
More time off then they worked.
BS! Now you get busy Eric Schmitt? Really??

Great idea! have you talked to your boss- upgrade infrastructure not ballrooms reflective ponds or arches 🤦🏻‍♂️

Maybe, instead of a ballroom……

I wonder what it’s like at the Atlanta airport. 🤣

We see what you did there.

Are you flying on this tour?

You know you drive from Atlanta to Iowa right?

Remind me who’s been in charge of the government for the last two years

Maybe if you went to a Hawkeyes game it would help.

Who exactly has been kicking the can down the road?

But, a ballroom…

But the ballroom

Hawkeye, you are part of the Senate!!!

Was this video filmed in Atlanta or Iowa?

President Joe Biden enacted major Federal Aviation Administration safety legislation, and while President Donald Trump cannot unilaterally repeal congressional laws, his administration did reverse several executive actions and reshaped safety oversight and staffing.
​During his presidency, Joe Biden signed the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024, officially known as the Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act, on May 16, 2024. According to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and aviation labor unions, this bipartisan law funded the FAA through September 2028 and included major safety provisions. Those provisions maintained the 1,500-flight-hour training requirement for pilots, funded new runway safety technology to prevent near misses, mandated increased air traffic controller staffing, updated pilot mental health protocols, and required secondary cockpit barriers on commercial aircraft. Biden also signed Executive Order 13998 on January 21, 2021, which mandated masks and COVID-19 testing protocols for domestic and international air travel.
​When Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, he did not repeal the 2024 FAA Reauthorization Act, because only Congress can repeal a federal law, and the FAA continued implementing provisions of that act into 2026. However, Trump took several immediate executive actions that altered FAA policies and personnel. On January 22, 2025, Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum terminating Biden-era diversity, equity, and inclusion hiring policies at the FAA and ordering a performance review of employees in critical safety positions. On that same day, according to PBS News and The New Republic, the Department of Homeland Security dismissed all members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, a panel originally mandated by Congress in 1988 to examine airline and airport safety.
​Later, on January 30, 2025, following a fatal midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Trump signed a memorandum titled Immediate Assessment of Aviation Safety, directing officials to reverse what the White House described as concerning safety and personnel trends from the prior four years. In February 2025, PBS News reported that the administration also fired hundreds of probationary FAA employees, including personnel who maintained radar, landing, and navigational systems. Meanwhile, the White House and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy stated that these actions, along with new helicopter restrictions and updated air traffic control initiatives introduced in 2025 and 2026, were designed to eliminate wasteful policies and restore merit and safety to the aviation system.

Another words airport safety crews who provided on the ground feedback to air traffic controllers were let go.

yep

Thank you for sharing this. It’s so important for Americans to understand how the government is actually working, or in this situation, not working. Too bad Sean Duffy didn’t know this.

Yes. We need to update all infrastructure. Work on that in a sensible manner. It’ll improve our lives and create jobs. BUT, that doesn’t mean we need a ballroom or every gaudy project with Trump’s toxic name on it.

Republicans have controlled every branch of government, then blame the government. Make it make sense.

he can’t bc it doesn’t.

The money we wasted in Iran could’ve been used here.

Its happening on your watch pal.

Perhaps we should have investigated this last year instead of letting DOGE fire the people who work on these systems?

So who has controlled Congress the past 2 yrs, why didnt you do something

They had total control of the government for almost two years- what were they waiting for?

trump and republicans have controlled Congress and could have funded the system, but they were too busy changing the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario.

Wasn’t there an upgrade already in process when doge cut it then gave the same contract to musk, well musk gave it to musk and starlink? Us flights down the same week ukraine lost access to starsheild? Weird how these same results surround that guy who has secret meetings with putin. Maybe giving the power to override congress to some rich schmuck wasnt the best idea?

Why did the GOP defund the faa?

Republicans should have voted for the funding that they didn’t the last three times it came up.

So you have been in charge for two years..

where has congress been the last two years? republicans have the majority.

Yes, rebuild the air system, so we know whether we’re in Atlanta or Iowa!!

Are you going to places like Iowa and Georgia to discuss this?

You had years. Why now?

Dude; the sky is blue, grass is green, shit is brown.

Ballrooms and arches>airline infrastructure. STFU DIRTBAG!

Pretty sure he spent that money on a ballroom

I know! A new ballroom will fix everything, and if that doesn’t work a Triumphal Arch will make everything ok…

Because the Senate has a stellar record of taking up consequential bills.

Republicans have the White House, the House majority and the senate majority…..
Why haven’t you gotten it done?

Don’t worry the plumber guy is here 😂 😂

Just think if all the money that was spent on ballroom, reflecting pool, arch, gold statues, golf games, birthday parades, UFC fights, war etc was spent on better things like this.

So why hasn’t the GOP funded it? Take some of the BILLIONS you gave to ICE. Much better use of those funds.

Duffy got 12.5 billion in the BBB. No more money. Maybe sell the steel from the ballroom and fund the FAA

I thought the arch and ballroom were more important.

No Ballroom
No Arch
No Golf Course

Priorities.

Previously:

Perfect timing (November 13, 2026)