‘Insane’: Texts reveal El Paso airport’s shock over FAA closure

On the night of Feb. 10, the operations manager at El Paso International Airport had urgent news.

The Trump administration was imposing a 10-day airspace closure over the Texas border city, and a federal transportation security official didn’t have any information about it, Alexander Rao texted colleagues around 9:50 p.m.

“[S]o far this is no BS,” Rao said in a message obtained by POLITICO via a public records request…

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