As flights across the U.S. ground to a halt Friday amid a rare nationwide ground stop, President Donald Trump was focused on proclaiming his support for a federal film and television tax incentive.
\n\nHomeland security secretary Markwayne Mullin did address the public after the ground stop was called, telling the nation, “This isn’t another 9/11. This is a telecommunication outage.”
\n\nThe President has not yet issued a statement on the massive ground stop, which has delayed over 10,000 flights so far.
\n\nInstead Trump, who was perhaps responding to a Friday Politico article saying “Hollywood’s tax credit push runs into a post-midterm wall,” took to Truth Social to assure that, in a bipartison effort, “meetings are being set up to GET THIS DONE.”
\n\nRead Trump’s Truth Social post below:
\n\n“I am working with Senator Tim Scott and, believe it or not, Senator Adam Schiff, and, additionally, Senators John Cornyn, Raphael Warnock, Steve Daines, Bernie Moreno, Tim Sheehy, Alex Padilla, Mark Warner, Thom Tillis, Chris Coons, Katie Britt, and Dick Durbin, together with Representatives Jason Smith, Nathaniel Moran, Brian Jack, Linda Sanchez, and many others, both Republican and Democrat, on the Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act. The support and popularity…
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