Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he is optimistic a “brand new system” for air-traffic control can be implemented in the next four years, previewing plans for the $31.5 billion fix on “Pod Force One.”

Duffy and other top officials have pressed for the pricey upgrade in the wake of the deadly midair disaster near Ronald Reagan National Airport earlier this year — the first major passenger crash in the US since 2009.

“There were 85 near-misses in this airspace in the three years before this crash,” Duffy recently told podcast hose Miranda Devine. “So someone should have seen it in the last administration. They didn’t. Tragedy struck.” 4

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