Originally Posted by
11Fan
From the article:
The Federal Aviation Administration, in an abrupt pause to a high-profile sequester cut, announced Friday that it would delay previously planned closures for 149 air traffic control towers at small airports.
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FAA delays closure of air traffic control towers | Fox News
Yep.
When Gov. Perry of Texas and TXDoT came out and said they would fund all the TX towers on the list, people began to ask how come TX had the $$ to do it, given that states like CA are broke and bleeding fiscal red.
In a complete shocker
, that's when the WH decided it didn't want to have that discussion, so orders to the FAA administrator were changed. /sarcasm