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MTV’s Sean Duffy to America: nice airspace, shame if something happened to it

Jason Weisberger
Nov 03, 2025
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Transportation Secretary and reality TV participant Sean Duffy says he’s ready to “shut the whole airspace down” if the remaining unpaid air traffic controllers get too tired to keep the skies safe. That’s not leadership; it is extortion by incompetence. Forty years after Ronald Reagan broke the air traffic controllers…

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