Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy keeps going on TV and insisting it’s safe to fly in and out of Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey, despite a string of extremely frightening outages and workforce shortages recently. But Duffy has now admitted he changed a flight booked for his wife on Monday so that she wouldn’t have to travel through Newark.

The move is in response to equipment failures and staff shortages that caused hourslong flight delays in recent weeks.

On Wednesday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy testified in front of the House Appropriations Committee before meeting with airline heads to discuss additional flight cancellations. Duffy is asking Congress for billions of dollars in up-front funding to modernize the FAA.