Saturday, February 14, 2026

More evidence that chaos rules in Trump administration (FAA vs. DOD tussle)

 
Headline:  New York Times, 2/12/2026

Kate Kelly, Karoun Demirjian, and Eric Schmitt report:
After border officials went ahead and used the technology, ignoring the pleas, the F.A.A. determined it had no further leverage to use. So it played its only card — or perhaps overplayed it. 
Late Tuesday night, it abruptly closed El Paso’s airspace, an extraordinary measure that disrupted travel and shocked local residents. 
It was the latest dust-up in an increasingly fractious relationship between two powerful government agencies, the F.A.A. and the Defense Department, as they attempt to fulfill differing objectives in a chaotic administration.

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