The resulting chaos from yesterday's nationwide ground stop is continuing while the Trump Administration is demanding tens of millions of dollars to ensure this does not happen again.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a nationwide ground stop on Friday afternoon due to Air Traffic Control communication issues.

The FAA ordered all US airports to ground stop. No flights were allowed to depart, but flights already in the air were allowed to land.

The ground stop was lifted hours later.

But this is cold comfort to roughly 1.5 million travelers who remain stranded at airports across the country.

Per FlightAware, over 4,000 flights have been canceled so far, while thousands more have been delayed.

These numbers will only continue to increase throughout the day. Moreover, it may be several days before things return to normal at America's airports.

While Americans suffer, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is requesting a whopping $50 billion in emergency funding from Congress to fix the U.S. air traffic control (ATC) and airspace systems.

Otherwise, these types of failures will continue.

What went down was old, right? It was the old legacy equipment. It failed," Duffy said during a Friday night press conference. "And listen, it's going to continue to fail."

"This is an emergency. I want Congress to give us emergency funding," Duffy continued. "This is bipartisan. This is American. I want $50 billion."

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