{"id":162002,"date":"2026-02-12T19:27:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/162002\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:27:05","slug":"defense-mysterious-el-paso-incident-fuels-blame-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/162002\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense: Mysterious El Paso incident fuels blame game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confusion reigned on Capitol Hill in the aftermath of a brief airspace closure over El Paso, Texas. But one House Democratic duo was quick to identify a potential culprit: the annual defense policy bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While other lawmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hascdemocrats\/status\/2021726365788057734?s=46\" rel=\"nofollow\">demanded answers,<\/a> Democratic Reps. Rick Larsen (Wash.) and Andr\u00e9 Carson (Ind.) quickly cast <a href=\"https:\/\/democrats-transportation.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/ranking-members-larsen-carson-statement-on-closure-of-el-paso-airspace\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blame on the White House<\/a> for airdropping language into the FY2026 NDAA signed into law late last year that they allege gave the Pentagon wide latitude to operate in the skies above military bases.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, we\u2019ve got the DOD thinking they own the civilian airspace in this country and they don\u2019t,\u201d Larsen, the top Democrat on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said in a brief interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/paywall-dome-logo.png\" alt=\"Subscripion logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        You&#8217;re seeing a preview of our Premium+ Defense coverage. Read the full story by <a href=\"https:\/\/punchbowl.news\/pricing\" class=\"header4-regular\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">subscribing here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Confusion reigned on Capitol Hill in the aftermath of a brief airspace closure over El Paso, Texas. But&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-162002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}