The Trump administration appears ready to pick a fight with Congress over funding to upgrade federal air communications systems after Friday's ground stop.

Last Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop for about four hours. Officials have said a router became overwhelmed by a system upgrade that caused communication issues, and that they issued the ground stop out of an abundance of caution. About 1.5 million travelers were affected Friday alone, and flight disruptions continued throughout the weekend before the backlog was resolved.

Adam Cancryn, a CNN White House reporter, said on Sunday's "CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield" that the ground stop has also teed up a fight between the Trump administration and Congress.

"Congress is supposed to be getting briefed tomorrow on that need and where it would go. But a big fight here, funding-wise, is brewing in the next couple of months before the end of the year here," Cancryn said.

Following the ground stop, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed the Biden administration for the outdated equipment. That's despite the Biden administration approving more than $25 billion in funding under Biden's bipartisan infrastructure law to modernize airports.

The Trump administration approved about $12.5 billion in additional funding to upgrade FAA communication systems in the One Big Beautiful Bill, and reports indicate that the administration has not yet spent all of the allocated funding.

Duffy has also asked Congress to approve an additional $50 billion in funding for new communications tools, up from his previous ask of $30 billion.

Questions have also swirled about the timing of the communication system outage. Some air traffic controllers have previously told CNN they don't believe the administration's excuse that a system upgrade caused the outage, arguing that those updates are usually pushed out in the middle of the night rather than in the afternoon on a busy travel day.

The outage also occurred on the same day that the National Weather Service's radar system was disrupted. Microsoft also experienced issues with its Office products the day before the ground stop. Trump administration officials have said they saw no evidence of nefarious activity.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) raised explosive new allegations Sunday about the Jan. 6 pipe bombs, suggesting newly released surveillance footage could expose a law enforcement cover-up.

“More evidence suggests the J6 pipe bombs were part of an inside job or botched training exercise that’s being covered-up,” Massie wrote on X.

The Kentucky Republican was reacting to a 26-minute video published on social media by conservative Blaze media reporter Steve Baker, who claims newly examined Capitol Police footage and radio communications raise questions about whether an officer knew about a pipe bomb outside Democratic National Committee headquarters before its discovery.

Baker identified former Capitol Police Lt. Dan Turner, alleging he repeatedly watched the area where the device was later discovered while other officers responded to reports of explosives nearby.

Massie told his social media followers that the new video “reveals former Capitol Hill Police Officer behaving as if he knew about the DNC pipe bomb before it was found, and anxiously awaited its discovery.”

Former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin also amplified the accusations.

“Members of USCP were clearly involved in the J6 pipebomb operation,” he wrote on X.

Another former FBI agent, Phil Kennedy, declared, “The J6 pipe bombs [were] an inside job.”

The allegations remain unsubstantiated. Federal prosecutors have charged Brian Cole Jr. with planting the device outside both party headquarters. He has pleaded not guilty.

“Brian Cole Jr is innocent, Kennedy added. “Disband the FBI.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and MAGA influencers took aim at Republican senators after some pushed back on President Donald Trump’s judicial picks with weeks left before Democrats take control of the Senate.

“Ugh. And Republicans wonder why they have problems with base voter enthusiasm,” DeSantis wrote Sunday in a post on X.

Philip Buchanan, a MAGA influencer who goes by "Catturd" online, took the criticism a step further, calling Republicans “lazy, worthless, traitors, backstabbers.”

“Who needs Democrats with Republicans like these?” MAGA activist CJ Pearson wrote.

The GOP resistance has already cost Trump one nomination, according to a report in Reuters. The White House pulled federal Judge Lee Rudofsky’s appeals court nomination after Arkansas Sens. John Boozman and Tom Cotton opposed him.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has yet to commit to backing Trump’s pick for a federal judgeship in Dallas, while Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) is helping block an Oklahoma nominee, the outlet reported.

City Journal editor Brian Anderson called the pushback “incredibly self-defeating.”

“The Democrats wouldn’t hesitate for [a] second to take advantage of such a window,” Anderson wrote on social media.

Twenty-three judicial nominations are still pending. The White House told Reuters it expects all of them to be confirmed this year.

“Enraging,” Kostas Moros, an attorney with the Second Amendment Foundation, posted online. “Every vacancy must be filled, as none will be after January. (At least not with conservative nominees anyway).”