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Sean Duffy: “We have old switches, old routers. We use 1980s little copper lines. It's an old system that went down and went down…”

On the recordNovember 13, 2026
We have old switches, old routers. We use 1980s little copper lines. It's an old system that went down and went down everywhere. It got overloaded.
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Sean Duffy
Republican · Wisconsin
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Discussing the causes of the aviation ground stop

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