Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) urged U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Federal Aviation Administrator Stephen Dickson to prioritize infrastructure funding for several critical projects at Florida airports.
“As you know, Florida’s airspace is among the busiest across our nation, and the state is home to dozens of airports with varying scopes of service,” Rubio wrote. “Our airports form an integral part of Florida’s rapidly growing economy and, in particular, its robust tourism industry, which is well on its way to returning to its pre-COVID rate of attracting more than 130 million visitors – both domestic and international – each year. Furthermore, Florida is also the third most populous state in the country and continues to expand as hundreds of thousands of Americans choose to relocate to the state each year.”
“Given these factors, and the massive pressure that they present to our state…