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Getty Images As flights across the U.S. ground to a halt Friday amid a rare nationwide ground stop, President Donald Trump was focused on proclaiming his support for a federal film and television tax incentive.
Homeland security secretary Markwayne Mullin did address the public after the ground stop was called, telling the nation, “This isn’t another 9/11. This is a telecommunication outage.”
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