美国交通部长肖恩·达菲周六在华盛顿特区交通部总部大楼的新闻发布会上发言。
US transportation secretary Sean Duffy speaks during a press briefing at the Department of Transportation headquarters building in Washington DC, on Saturday.
民主党参议员克里斯·范·霍伦说，特朗普政府没有妥善投入现有资金。特朗普政府周日将周五四小时全国航班停飞造成的旅行混乱归咎于前任总统以及国会资金不足——尽管一名民主党参议员认为，特朗普政府没有妥善投入其已获得的全部资金，以实施所需的航空旅行基础设施升级。
Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen says Trump administration hasn’t properly invested existing funds Donald Trump’s administration on Sunday blamed the travel chaos stemming from Friday’s four-hour nationwide flight stoppage on prior presidents as well as a lack of congressional funding – though a Democratic senator argued that the Trump administration hasn’t properly invested all of the funds it has already been given to implement needed air travel infrastructure upgrades.
“我对之前政府交给我的东西负责，”美国交通部长肖恩·达菲告诉CNN主持人达娜·巴什，这是在他前一天表示，承包商搞砸的例行但必要的维护导致联邦航空管理局（FAA）停飞，进而造成数千架航班延误或取消之后。
“I take responsibility for what was given to me by prior administrations,” the US transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, told CNN’s Dana Bash, a day after he said routine but necessary maintenance botched by a contractor had caused Friday’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ground stop leading to the delay or cancellation of thousands of flights.
与此同时，马里兰州民主党参议员克里斯·范·霍伦批评特朗普政府如何管理达菲所渴望的改进项目的现有拨款。
Meanwhile, Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland criticized how the Trump administration has managed existing funding allocated for the improvements coveted by Duffy.
“听到部长指责国会，这真是太可笑了，因为国会已经给了政府他们要求的东西，”范·霍伦周日早上单独告诉CNN的巴什。“如果他们需要更多，就应该上来证明理由。我会支持建立安全系统和可靠系统所必需的一切。”达菲声称范·霍伦提到的国会拨款——125亿美元——范围有限，远远不够。
“It’s really rich to hear the secretary pointing the fingers at Congress when Congress has given the administration what they asked for,” Van Hollen separately told CNN’s Bash on Sunday morning. “If they need more, they should come up and justify it. I will support what is necessary to have a safe system and a reliable system.”Duffy claimed the congressional funding which Van Hollen mentioned – $12.5bn – was limited in scope and not nearly enough.
“我在那125亿美元里没有一分钱可以用于电信的新架构，”达菲说。“我无法建立新软件来管理我们在空域中的飞机，因为它可以追溯到20世纪90年代，但那里没有钱。没有钱用于塔台。我们的塔台都很旧。”达菲在接受CNN采访时还花了一部分时间为特朗普辩护，特朗普直到周日才对25年来最长的全国性停飞发表评论。
“I have no money in that $12.5bn that I can use for a new architecture for telecom,” said Duffy. “I can’t build new software to manage our airplanes in the airspace because it dates back to the 1990s, but there’s no money for that. There’s no money for towers. Our towers are old.”Duffy also spent part of the interview with CNN defending Trump, who waited until Sunday to remark on the longest nationwide ground stop in 25 years.
总统的评论以社交媒体帖子的形式发表，指责拜登政府，并称自己正忙于“在白宫就许多议题开会”。这些评论是在他发帖谈及设想中的两党国会倡议，旨在振兴电影和电视行业之后发表的。
The president’s comments came in the form of social media posts blaming the Biden administration and describing himself as busy “in the White House having meetings on many subjects”. They came after he had posted about what he envisioned to be a bipartisan congressional initiative to revitalize the motion picture and television industries.
“在我宣誓就职之前，热爱空域的总统就告诉我，我们必须现代化，”达菲对巴什说。“这是我们拥有的第一位如此关心现代化空域的总统。”当被问及特朗普为何花了两天时间才对停飞发表评论时，达菲声称他一直与总统保持幕后的持续联系。
“Before I even was sworn in, the president who loves the airspace was telling me we have to modernize,” Duffy said to Bash. “This is the first president we have who cares this much about modernizing the airspace.”When asked why Trump took two days to comment on the ground stop, Duffy claimed he was in constant behind-the-scene contact with the president.
“他全程参与，因为这对他很重要，也对美国很重要，”达菲声称。“总统完全支持，全程参与，并且完全了解正在发生的事情。”周日在Truth Social上的帖子中，特朗普指责乔·拜登，并要求国会拨款。
“He was fully engaged because this is important to him, and it’s important to America,” Duffy claimed. “The president is fully supportive, fully engaged, and was fully tracking what’s happening.” post on Truth Social on Sunday, Trump blamed Joe Biden and demanded funding from Congress.
“拜登政府是联邦航空管理局的一场灾难。他们碰过的每件事都变糟了，”特朗普写道。“我们拥有飞行控制系统的知识和计划，我们需要国会尽快拨款！”在周日CBS新闻《面对国家》节目的另一次采访中，达菲告诉主持人玛格丽特·布伦南，联邦航空管理局目前正在调查导致停飞令的糟糕维护工作的根本原因。他说，这项涉及将旧铜线更换为光纤电缆的电信线路维护工作，此前已“成千上万次”未出现任何问题。
“The Biden Administration was an FAA disaster. Everything they touched turned bad,” Trump wrote. “We have the knowledge and plan for the Flight Control Systems, we need Congress to give the money, FAST!”In another interview on Sunday on CBS News’ Face the Nation, Duffy told host Margaret Brennan that the FAA was currently investigating the root cause of the botched maintenance work that triggered the ground stop. He said the maintenance involved – replacing telecommunication lines from old copper wire to fiber optic cables – has occurred “thousands of times” without any issues.
据报道，承包商L3Harris正在进行诊断测试。达菲一再表示，目前没有任何迹象表明存在外国网络攻击。代表联邦航空管理局超过1.1万名员工的美国劳工总工会下属专业航空安全专家工会（Pass）表示，其代表的技术人员未参与导致停飞令的升级工作。
The contractor, L3Harris, is reportedly conducting diagnostics testing. Duffy, as he has repeatedly done, said there continued being no indication of a foreign cyberattack. Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (Pass), the AFL-CIO labor union representing more than 11,000 workers at the FAA, said technicians it represents were not involved in the upgrades that led to the ground stop.
“问题仅限于两台由承包商拥有和维护的路由器，这些路由器正在中午进行更新，”该工会在一份声明中表示。“历史上，承包商遵循一项协议，即联邦航空管理局员工进行风险评估，并协调系统或设备的维护工作。”但该工会表示，Pass代表的技术人员未参与周五停飞令核心的升级工作。
“The issue was isolated to two contractor owned and maintained routers that were being updated midday,” the union said in a statement“Historically, contractors have followed a protocol where FAA employees conduct a risk assessment and coordinate the maintenance of the system or equipment.”But the union said Pass-represented technicians were not involved in the upgrades at the center of Friday’s ground stop.
针对工会的声明，达菲对布伦南表示，“这做得很恰当，顺便说一句，我们、其他人以及其他公司已经这样做了成千上万次”。
Duffy told Brennan in response to the union’s statement that “this was done appropriately, which by the way, it’s been done thousands of times by us, by others, by other companies”.
“这从未发生过，”达菲辩称。“这就是为什么当你有一个像这样的偏远地点时，我们觉得在白天中间进行是安全的，因为这已经做了成千上万次。我们从未遇到过这种情况。我们将不得不重新评估我们进行这项工作的时间。”
“This has never happened,” Duffy argued. “That’s why when you have a remote location like this, we felt comfortable doing it in the middle of the day because it’s been done thousands of times. We’ve never had this situation. We’re going to have to re-evaluate when we do this work.”
当被问及是否进行了风险评估时，达菲没有直接回答。他说：“我们对所有事情都进行风险评估。”达菲还引用了2026年9月发布的一份政府问责局报告，该报告指出需要现代化空中交通管制系统。
When asked if a risk assessment was conducted, Duffy did not directly answer. He said: “We do risk assessments on everything.”Duffy also cited a Government Accountability Office report published in September 2026 that noted the need to modernize air traffic control systems.
他被问及该报告指出，在实施空中交通管制系统现代化工作时，“可能会将速度置于成本和空中交通中断之上”。达菲声称：“关于速度，我们正在……我认为……以正确的速度前进。”帕斯也呼吁改善联邦航空管理局认证专业技术人员的配备情况——并要求工会充分参与实施所谓的“全新空中交通管制系统”的工作。
“这些员工应接受新设备培训，并能确保更可靠的安装和优化——如果劳动力配备得当的话，”工会补充道。
He was asked about the report noting that “it could be prioritizing speed over costs and air traffic disruptions” in implementing a modernization effort of air traffic control systems. Duffy claimed, “In regard to speed, we are going, I think … at that the right speed.”Pass has also called for progress on improving staffing of certified professional technicians at the FAA – and for the union to be fully engaged in efforts to implement what has been dubbed the Brand New Air Traffic Control System“These employees should receive training on new equipment and could ensure more robust installation and optimization – if the workforce were properly staffed,” the union added.