The agency has taken steps to reduce the risk of midair collisions after a military helicopter struck a commercial flight in January, killing everyone on both crafts.
The senators wrote that the Jan. 29 crash highlighted a dangerous pattern of near misses between military and commercial aircraft around Ronald Reagan National Airport.
The program had briefly ensnared Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic congresswoman and now President Trump’s director of national intelligence, who has vocally criticized it as politicized.
The Quiet Skies program sought to increase airplane security by allowing federal marshals to follow U.S. citizens on domestic and certain outbound international flights under some circumstances.
The program had briefly ensnared Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic congresswoman and now President Trump’s director of national intelligence, who has vocally criticized it as politicized.
The Quiet Skies program sought to increase airplane security by allowing federal marshals to follow U.S. citizens on domestic and certain outbound international flights under some circumstances.
Construction on a section of the California high-speed rail project in Fresno, Calif., in 2022. The rail project, which was originally envisioned to run from Los Angeles to San Francisco, remains unfinished.
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