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The
sparked widespread
. Officials quickly reassured the public that it was not another 9/11. The US homeland security
said there had been no indication of a
or national security threat. He described the incident as a "telecommunications
". Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed the
on outdated infrastructure. He said: "We have old switches and old
. We use 1980s little copper lines." He added: "It's an old system that went down. It went down
. It got overloaded." Duffy warned that systems would "continue to break" unless Congress allocated
funds. He said: "I can't build things if I don't have
."