Satellite service Starlink doesn’t have the capabilities to be the FAA’s comms backbone. Trump officials may take a $2.4B contract from Verizon and give it to Musk’s company anyway.

The rules inside the control tower at Reagan National Airport are getting stricter, according to a new report. It comes after the deadly mid-air collision in January that killed 67 people. The report,

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Thursday the Trump administration will take steps to boost air traffic controller hiring after a series of recent safety incidents again raised questions about a persistent staffing shortage.

Several air traffic control facilities, including in Nevada, are understaffed, a decades-old trend that could be getting worse after the Trump administration laid off hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees earlier this month. The FAA is the federal agency that regulates civil and commercial space transportation.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Elon Musk squabbled during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday, sources told the New York Times. Duffy was reportedly frustrated that Musk and DOGE had tried to cut air traffic control employees.

The exchange reportedly occurred when Trump called his cabinet into the Oval Office to clarify the scope of Musk's authority.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy accused Elon Musk’s DOGE team of trying to fire air traffic controllers at the Federal Aviation Administration, according to a report. Duffy made the claim at a tense Cabinet meeting on Thursday that saw tensions flare between Musk and several members of Donald Trump’s administration,