May 14 (UPI) -- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Wednesday told House committee members about plans to reduce flights involving troubled Newark Liberty International Airport as he explained why his wife was put on a plane at another airport.
Duffy testified before members of the transportation subcommittee on appropriations about the agency's 2026 fiscal year budget. The requested $26.7 billion is a 5.8% increase from the previous year.
Most of the hearing was devoted to the situation at the New Jersey airport amid a shortage of air traffic controllers and significant outages.
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, a Democrat from New Jersey, suggested that Duffy "diverted your wife from Newark airport to LaGuardia out of a sense of security."
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