Trump Says DEI just killed 60 people

[tman1847]

Originally Posted by royamcr

Yep, Biden was blamed for inflation as soon as he took office. Trump gets the same blame now, it's on his watch. Especially since this involved military and federal ATC. That definitely is pinned on him. Instead he is renaming water.

Short memory? Bidens first year economy wasn't to bad. After his stupid policies started to take effect, everything start to nose dive. Wasn't 2022 when everyones investments tanked

[1blackman1]

Originally Posted by tman1847

Head of the FAA interview clearly stated traffic was not low. Staffing was low but not unacceptable. She also stated her concern to Congress about not enough controllers. Maybe Biden intended to cross train some of the 81,000 IRS agents he wanted to hire. After nine days its Trumps fault right

You’re not refuting anything I said even though you clearly think you are. Try reading and comprehending. It’ll take you far and you’ll get that the manager chose to have one person working because he believed traffic volume was low enough to have one person rather than two. It had nothing to do with not having enough ATCs.

[Salty Again]

... Then, obviously the manager made the WRONG decision.
Should've had two people there. ... Perhaps the tragedy
don't happen IF they are properly staffed.

... It's NOT complicated, 1blackman1. ... No need to make it so.

... And perhaps the FAA's hiring practices - DEI and what-not
has added to the rising number of "near crash" misses that
they've had in the last two years or so.

... Trump's not wrong about this.

#### Salty

[RX792P]

Originally Posted by Precious_b

Nah. You missed the memo.

Yeah....the memo

Things were much different during the Trump administration....NOT

during Trump’s first term, in 2019, the FAA announced “a pilot program to help prepare people with disabilities for careers in air traffic operations,” saying that “a key focus for the FAA’s Office of Civil Rights is to identify specific opportunities for people with targeted disabilities, empower them and facilitate their entry into a more diverse and inclusive workforce.” The FAA continued to promote the pilot program in the latter half of 2020, near the end of Trump’s first term.

The FAA’s 2019 and 2020 descriptions of the program emphasized that people with disabilities would not be hired for jobs for which they weren’t capable. The FAA wrote in 2019 that “the candidates in this program will receive the same rigorous consideration in terms of aptitude, medical and security qualifications as those individuals considered for a standard public opening for air traffic controller jobs.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/polit...eck/index.html