{"id":173366,"date":"2026-02-20T20:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173366\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T20:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:55:22","slug":"us-official-says-closing-el-paso-airport-was-not-mistake-will-brief-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173366\/","title":{"rendered":"US Official Says Closing El Paso Airport Was Not Mistake, Will Brief Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday it was not a mistake to close the airport in El Paso, Texas last week and said next week the department would brief lawmakers who have raised significant concerns about the decision.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration initially said it was closing the El Paso airport for 10 days before reversing course within hours.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters and other outlets reported the FAA closed the airspace because of concerns about a military laser-based anti-drone system. Asked if his social media post about the incident was wrong, Duffy said: \u201cI use the information that I get.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by David Shepardson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday it was not a mistake to close the airport in El&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-173366","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\/173366","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=173366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}