Air traffic controller sick calls during shutdown force Nashville airport flights to average 2-hour delays while Dallas and Chicago experience delays averaging 30 to 40 minutes.
Hollywood Burbank Airport tower goes unmanned for six hours as unpaid air traffic controllers call in sick during shutdown, with operations handled remotely from San Diego as FAA faces 3,000 controller national shortage.
Trump pauses $2.1 billion for Chicago Red Line extension to South Side citing minority set-aside contracts during shutdown as city vows lawsuit and senators call it illegal retaliation.
Surface Transportation Board member fired in August sues Trump, claiming illegal removal ahead of $85 billion rail merger review that Trump later endorsed.
Transportation Dept. finds 190,000 of 200,000 immigrant truck drivers were improperly licensed, threatens California with $160 million funding cut.
Atlanta airport forfeits $37.5 million in FAA grants after refusing to disavow DEI programs despite attempted contract edits.
Transportation Dept. cancels bike and trail grants in six states, calling projects “hostile to motor vehicles.”
The FCC moves to reverse a Biden-era rule providing internet hotspots to students, citing internet safety rules that the program already follows.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy threatened federal delays on the Key Bridge rebuild, citing concerns over the project’s cost and Maryland’s DEI policies.
