flights across America are grounded as the FAA falls down on the job. But at least Pete Buttigieg isn't on paternity leave this time.

House Republicans move forward with the committee to investigate the deep state and Joe Biden denies knowing anything at all about missing classified documents.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

All righty. So this morning, a bunch of flights were grounded. They are now flying again,

but with severe delays. According to the New York Times, the Federal Aviation Administration

lifted in order to ground all flights across the United States shortly before 9 a.m. Eastern on

Wednesday after a system failure left pilots, airlines, and airports without crucial safety

information for hours on end.

The agency said normal air traffic operations are resuming gradually across the United States.

There were more than 4,000 flights within, into and out of the United States that had been delayed on Wednesday, according to Flight Aware, that was a flight tracking service.

The delays were spread across the country.

They affected multiple carriers.

Passengers across the country said their plans have been scuttled.

Airport employees sometimes knew little more than passengers did.

But the good news is that at least Pete Buttigieg is on the job.

That's the really important thing.

The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, mostly famous for not being able to fill

potholes very well in South Bend, Indiana, and also being gay.

He's been just a stellar Secretary

of Transportation from near railroad strikes to failures of supply chains, to the airlines

actually not being able to get their planes in the air, thanks to FAA failures. He's just been a godsend,

truly. And it's really his leadership and the leadership of President Biden that's so

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