Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) wasted no time blaming the president for a deadly midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a U.S. Army helicopter.
The Wisconsin Republican wasn't blaming current president Donald Trump, of course, but rather his predecessor Joe Biden, who left office nine days before the crash that killed 67 people aboard both aircraft, during an appearance Thursday morning on Fox Business.
"I spoke with Mike Boyd, who is a very well known airline expert, and he put all of the blame on air traffic control and the FAA," said host Maria Bartiromo. "He said these two businesses – not businesses, agencies, air traffic control and FAA, has been broken for years, and that the last administration tolerated that they were unfit, and and they allowed it."
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Boyd, an aviation consultant and frequent Fox News guest, told Bartiromo earlier in her program that the Trump administration should "take a bulldozer to the front of the FAA," an agency that currently lacks a leader after Joe Biden's nominee Mike Whitaker stepped down on Inauguration Day under pressure from Elon Musk.
"I agree with him, his assessment," Johnson said of Boyd. "I'm not exactly sure what caused this, whether it was purely the air traffic control system, but I know it's completely antiquated. It needs to be updated, we've known this for years, and quite honestly [previous] administrations haven't done anything about it. We're using old technology, we could do such a better job. This is exactly, quite honestly, what someone like Elon Musk could get in here with his effort and really modernize things."
