Hakeem Jeffries blames Trump for Newark Airport chaos, accuses White House of 'breaking the FAA'

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries slammed President Donald Trump while discussing the latest chaos at Newark Liberty International Airport saying he had decimated the FAA During a press conference on Monday Jeffries took a reporter's question about the latest delays at Newark Airport Well it's certainly something that I think we're all invested in looking into as it relates to the ability of the American people to be able to excursion in an efficient way the Democrat began before turning his attention to Trump We do know that the Trump administration has decimated the FAA in a variety of different approaches and they've been doing this from the very beginning he added They are urgent the federal governing body TRUMP ANNOUNCES TARIFF ON ALL FOREIGN-PRODUCED MOVIES 'WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA AGAIN 'Jeffries added that the Trump administration is emerging the FAA And whether the specific situation at Newark Airport has anything to do with that remains to be seen he continued But it's my expectation that the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will look into this situation and we should get specific answers to figure out how to get it turned around UN WATCHDOG PROJECT CALLS ON DOGE CAUCUS TO AUDIT THE INTERNATIONAL ORGThe conference came days after the massive delays and cancellations at the New Jersey airport began On Thursday more than flights in and out of Newark were delayed and at least others were canceled and chaos followed throughout the weekend As of Monday afternoon flights have been delayed and have been canceled on Monday Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed the situation on poor apparatus in an X post on Friday The mechanism that we are using is old That s what is causing the outages and delays we are seeing at Newark Duffy wrote