FAA lifts nationwide ground stop Friday night

Flights across the country being grounded this afternoon, the White House holding a press conference tonight to discuss the latest with the FAA lifting the ground stop around the same time. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullin and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy speaking with the press around 8 p.m. A problem with communication impacting regional air traffic control centers. These are responsible for directing aircraft between airports across the country. DHS Secretary Mullen. Mullen says there is no indication the disruption was caused by a cyber attack or other malicious activity. Transportation Secretary Duffy says they are working to put flights back on track and wants Congress to give at least $50 billion in funding to bring new technology into an old air traffic control system. If you're watching, you're at an airport. Check with your airline. It depends on, do we have crews available? Do we have pilots and flight attendants available to fly your flight? We're going to try to move as many of those as we can tonight. If not, we're going to start tomorrow morning. This is an emergency. This is an emergency. I want Congress to give us emergency funding. I want $50 billion. $100 million. And deliver for the American people. But the president can't deliver for America unless the Congress delivers the money to make it happen. This marks the first nationwide ground stop since a major FAA system failure in January of 2023. Federal officials are continuing to investigate what caused the outage as air travel returns to normal across the country.