On March 13, with mounting pressure following the grounding of the aircraft by Canada's transportation [1], Trump met Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, Acting Administrator of the FAA Dan Elwell, and Muilenburg and agreed to ground the aircraft. "The FAA is preparing to make an announcement very shortly regarding the new information and physical evidence that we've received from the Ethiopia crash site and from other locations and through a couple of other complaints," Trump announced.[59][3]