Transportation Chaos Across the US as Flights Grounded & Train Derails | EWTN News Nightly

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It has been a week of transportation chaos across the US. A technology glitch grounded the country's air travel Wednesday morning. By 10 am, nearly 5,000 flights were delayed and an additional 900 were cancelled. What's more, passengers traveling from Virginia to Florida were stuck on an Amtrak train for 36 hours after a freight train derailed. It was heading to South Carolina. Research Fellow for Economic Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation, Joel Griffith, joins to share his reaction to this grand-scale transportation chaos plaguing the country this week and what we are hearing. Griffith talks about the latest budget and the impact on federal agencies like the FAA and the Transportation Department. For the FAA alone, $15 billion tax-payer dollars now go to measures like climate change mitigation, environmental justice and racial equity and inclusion. Griffith tells us his take on this and whether all of this is coming at a cost to transportation safety. There is also an aging infrastructure in the country, with some of our air traffic control facilites close to 80 years old now, and yet the focus is on sustainable fuels and green pavement materials. Griffith explains whether this makes sense to him. He fills us in on what else he is following. EWTN News Nightly provides the latest news and analysis from a Catholic perspective. Join host Tracy Sabol, our Capitol Hill, White House and Rome Correspondents, as well as many other diverse guests daily, to get the latest from the U.S. and the Vatican on topics regarding our Catholic faith and interests. ------------- EWTN News Nightly airs on EWTN weekdays at 6pm & 9pm ET. ------------ Don't miss an episode of EWTN New Nightly. Get updates here: https://www.ewtn.com/tv/shows/ewtn-news-nightly ------------- Sign up today to receive the EWTN News Nightly newsletter: https://www.ewtn.com/enn ------------- Follow EWTN News Nightly on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ewtnnewsnightly Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWTNNewsNightly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ewtnnewsnightly/ ------------- Subscribe to EWTN YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/EWTN ------------- You can support the EWTN News mission: https://bit.ly/3qDR1qf