John Delaney: “Metro has been underfunded, and it has lacked a reliable source of funding, which has created greater uncertainty.”

Metro is an organization in crisis with significant deficiencies around safety, around reliability, around customer service, and around financial management.

Maintenance is never exciting. It's not sexy. But it is a disaster when the worst happens.

I had firsthand experience with this prior to coming to Congress. I started two businesses as private companies, and they both became publicly traded companies. I shared ownership in those companies broadly with my team. It was very good…

I think this very troubling incident is one of the many reasons we have to have more people out of the back office and on the front lines.