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White House Shoots Down Kathy Hochul’s Demand For Sean Duffy’s Ouster Over FAA Mess

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What happened White House Shoots Down Kathy Hochul’s Demand For Sean Duffy’s Ouster Over FAA Mess.
The headline split Mediaite frames it as "White House Shoots Down Kathy Hochul’s Demand For Sean Duffy’s Ouster Over FAA Mess". Conservative Treehouse frames it as "Secretary Sean Duffy and FAA Admin Bryan Bedford Provide an Update".
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Right / center-rightInside The Company Sean Duffy Suggested Might Be Behind The FAA Flight Outage

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100 Percent Fed UpNews report · Nov 14, 8:53 PM

LOOK: Inside The Company Sean Duffy Suggested Might Be Behind The FAA Flight Outage

L3Harris runs the FAA's legacy telecom backbone. Now Sean Duffy says work on that network may have triggered the nationwide ground stop.

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Conservative TreehouseNews report · Nov 14, 9:36 PM

Secretary Sean Duffy and FAA Admin Bryan Bedford Provide an Update

Dept of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford held a press conference today following a national ground stoppage on Friday. Secretary Duffy explains how an...

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MediaiteNews report · Nov 15, 1:11 AM

White House Shoots Down Kathy Hochul’s Demand For Sean Duffy’s Ouster Over FAA Mess

The White House shot down Kathy Hochul's demand that Sean Duffy step down as Transportation secretary or be fired following the ground stop. The post White House Shoots Down Kathy Hochul’s...

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