Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy appeared on "Fox & Friends" Wednesday morning to give an update on the nation's transportation concerns and how the DOT was addressing them. Duffy revealed that the DOT is looking closely at whether to pause federal funding to the New York and other city subway systems until they address the rampant crime on their systems. 

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Secretary Sean Duffy says cities like NYC get millions in federal funds for subways—but if they can’t keep them safe, that money will be pulled. pic.twitter.com/kFUGK9QxwC

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Duffy then segued into the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), teasing the possibility of a new, state-of-the-art control system. Duffy told the morning hosts:

We're going to have a brand new-system. Again, our system is 25-30 years old. We use copper wires, floppy disks. I mean, it is atrocious the system we use. It's safe, but we're seeing the cracks of age.

No kidding, while confidence in air travel continues to erode. More people die annually in motor vehicle accidents than they do in airplane crashes, yet, people would still rather be in their car than on an airplane. The fact that Americans do not trust the systems in place is part of that reason.

Duffy further teased some of the details on what would comprise this new state-of-the-art system. 

We're going to go from copper lines to fiber lines, we're going to have.. our radar, some of the newest models that we have date back to 1982. We're going to have brand-new radar, brand new terminals for our air traffic controllers, we're going to have sensors on runways, so you don't have to stand in the tower and look out with binoculars, and oftentimes the controllers views are impeded. On their screens they'll be able to see where airplanes are at on the tarmac. So, again, top technology that is going to be deployed.

Sounds wonderful, doesn't it? Herein lies the rub. DOT will have to petition Congress for not only a large sum of money, but that the money be appropriated quickly.

The key to this is speed. It's not that we don't know we've had a problem with air traffic control. But it takes too long. And then technology changes, money changes, administrations change. So we have to do this really fast. So, the Congress has to give us all the money upfront.

Good luck with that. Between the actual lack of support in backing up the DOGE recommendations and the activist judges they have on tap to block anything Trump-related, Democrats and Republicans in Congress appear to have no real stomach to enact change, even if that change means they prevent the loss of lives in the process. Back to those traffic fatalities: during Duffy's confirmation hearings, Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) aired his own frustrations with the stalls to rulemaking and legislation that would address automobile safety concerns. This is a Democrat senator complaining, mind you. So, imagine the gumming of the works that could occur with asking for a huge nut for air transportation upgrades. 

Duffy discussed the team that could potentially help with the updates to the system. 

We're going to take in some of the brightest and best minds who have done it in the past. We have some SpaceX engineers that are helping us and others to help us deploy, again, this fantastic system.

Duffy was reticent to reveal more than that, but planned to present the full plan to President Donald Trump first before rolling it out to Congress.

"Hopefully we'll get the money quick," Duffy optimistically asserted.

Here's the Wednesday morning segment.

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.@SecDuffy: We are going to have a brand-new system. Our system is 25-30 years old. We use copper wires, floppy disks. It's safe, but we're seeing the cracks of age... we're going to have brand new radar, brand new terminals for our air traffic controllers... pic.twitter.com/segvk56KlD

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