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You want to hire the best and the brightest for this kind of job because it is a very stressful job and can take a toll on you, aging you prematurely. You want to make sure that the people doing it are the best."
Andrew Brigida, speaking to British newspaper The Telegraph on Thursday DEI hiring policies have no place in America, especially in safety-critical industries, yet they have shaped the FAA's hiring decisions for years. Last night's accident is a sobering reminder of the cost of placing ideology over expertise. How many more tragedies must occur before we return to common sense? It's time to demand accountability, end DEI hiring in aviation, and restore safety as the top priority in our airways."
Mountain States Legal Foundation said in a Thursday statement Every FAA-certified air traffic controller has gone through months of screening and training at the FAA Academy, and that is before another 18-24 months of training to learn specific regions and airspaces. There is a well-known national shortage of air traffic controllers, and the FAA has ramped up outreach to ensure no talent is left on the table. We are accelerating the pace of recruiting, training, and hiring to meet demand while maintaining the highest qualification standards."
FAA statement to Fox News in April 2024 In this bill, if a person is so much as accused of a crime, if someone wants to point a finger and accuse someone of shoplifting, they would be rounded up and put into a private detention camp and sent out for deportation without a day in court,
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in response to the measure It is extremely inappropriate for the President to use this tragedy to push an anti-diversity hiring agenda,
said Jess Davidson, a spokeswoman at the American Association of People with Disabilities It is an utterly bad faith and stupid argument,
What he’s saying is you’ve had a giant failure, you’ve also had a diversity program, therefore the diversity program’s the cause of the failure,
said Alison Taylor, an associate professor at New York University’s Stern school of business focused on corporate responsibility and business ethics We must have only the highest standards for those who work in our aviation system,
We can only accept the best and the brightest in positions of safety,
Duffy said, echoing Trump's language It may have, I don't know
But at another point, asked race and gender played a role in the tragic accident, Trump said The initiative is part of the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) diversity and inclusion hiring plan
, I think we need very smart people running the flights and doing it,
I will be meeting with some people that were very badly hurt, with their family member, obviously, but I'll be meeting with some of the families,
On DEI and the claims you've made, are you saying this crash was somehow caused and the result of diversity hiring?"
NBC's Mary Bruce asked Trump at a White House press briefing Time for the President to show actual leadership and explain what he will do to prevent this from happening again,
What I've seen so far, do I think this was preventable? Absolutely."
Duffy said at a Thursday news conference These are various very powerful tests that we put to use, and they were terminated by Biden. And Biden went by a standard that's the exact opposite. So we don't know."
We don't believe there are any survivors,
