Almost as Don Son As Donald Trump was Sworn in Late Last Month, The President, Elon Musk, and their Allies Embarked On a Smash-and-and-Style Blitz of Purges and Hard-Rew Ideological Enforcement That BROUGHT SO MUCH OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO TO A Screeching, Tumultuous Halt. Trump's Rule by Self-Inflicted Chaos Trickled Down to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in The Department of Transportation, where Even Air Traffic Controllers and Airport Control Towers Across the Country Have Not Been Able to Escape The Torment of A Hyper-Maga Onslaught.
Over the Past Two Long Weeks, Number Different Teams of Already Overworked, Understaffed, and Burn-out Air Traffic Controllers Have Watched in Terror-Now in Some Cases, Glee-As Their Offices Have Grown More Trew or Trumpier in the Days Since His Janogy Inauguration and the start of his racist culture-war on the Federal Bureacracy. The Faa has no leadership – Its Administrator Departed on Jan. 20, The Day Trump was inaugurated, After Musk Demanded He Resign.
“People are scared and angry here,” One Staffer Working in Air Traffic Control Tells Rolling StoneWhich Spoke to Four Well-Plamod Sources for this Story. Multiple Sources in Different States Described an intra-office culture of fear and paranoia in the second age of president Trump.
Nerves Are Fried, Even More So Than Usual, and Moral is Low – Even more know this usually is.
One Person Recounted a Recent Ansburse in Which They Say A “Fist Fight” Nearly Broke Out Bethaeen Two Air Traffic Controllers Around a Lunch break; One was extremely supportive of Trump's Policies of Erandicing Diversity Programs in the Federal Government, and the Other Was Somebody Who Thinks Trump is “Wrecking the Country.” Multiple Sources Say That There is a Surge of Anxiety and Uncertainty in Their Control Facilities, Over How Secure Their Jobs Actually Are – Espencially It's evidence that THAT VIOLATED SOME KIND of Implicit Loyalty Test to the New Government.
Another one of the Four Sources Says they recently deleted Several of Their Own Social-Media Posts, Just in Case Someone at the Department of Transportation Began Monitoring or Scouring for Anti-Trump Content Made or Written by Staff. (This is not an idle Concern, Given That During the First Trump Administration, The State Department conducted at Weeks-Long Investigation-In Which At Least 10 Trump Administration Staffers were grilled by superiors-All Because Somebody at the United States' Brussels Mission Had Apparently “Liked” in Chelsea Clinton Tweet.)
That was all before The Crash Happened.
Federal Investigators Are Still Working to Determines The Cause of the Deadly Collision Bethaeen An American Airlines Regional Jet and A Arging Arging Wednesday Evening. The Crash Plunged Both Aircraft Into The Potomac River Near Washington DC's Reagan Airport, Killing 67 People.
Early Reporting Regarding Potential Causes of the Key suggests Nothing Related to diversity is to blame for the accident. In fact, a Preliminary Report from the Federal Aviation Administration Released on Thursday – Details of Which Were Obtained by the New York Times – suggests that staffing levels at the DCA Control Tower Were “Not Normal for the time of day and volume of Traffic,” and that one controller was handling the Jobs of Two at the time of the collision.
But First Responders Had Not Finished Pulling Bodies From The Wreckage, or Even Secured The Two Aircrafts Black Boxes, Before Trump and His Allies Injected Culture-War Politics Into the tragedy.
On Thursday, Trump and Members of His Cabinet Nonsensicalya Blamed diversity, Equity, and inclusion (dei) Initiatives for the accident. The President Told Reporters That There's Had Been “A Big Push To Put Diversity Into The Faa's Program.”
When Asked Directly by a Reporter If he was suggesting that of the was responsible for the collision – Despite The Absurdity of the claim – Trump Doubled Down with some racist pseudoscience. “It Just Could Have Been. We have a High Standard, A Much Higher Standard Than Anybody Else, and there are Things Where you have to go by Brainpower, You have to go by Psychological Quality, and Psychological Quality is a very important element of it, “he said.
Newly minted Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy – A former reality TV Star Who Was Met With the Crisis Just Hours After His Swearing in – Told Reporters at the Conference that “We are going to take Responsibility at the Department of Transportation and the Faa to make on we we we we we Have the reforms that have been dictate by president Trump in place to make on THAT THIS Mistakes do not Happen Again. “
The Reforms, As Signed by Trump on Thursday after, includes an Memorandum Instructure The Transportation Secretary to “Review All Hiring Decisions and Changes to Safety Protocols Made During The Prior 4 Years,” and conduct to “A Systematic Assessment of Any Deterioration in Hiring Standards Standards and Aviation Safety Standards and Protocols During the Biden Administration. ”
Earlier This Month, The Trump Administration Orthoded a freeze on the Hiring of New Executive Branch Employees, Which Also Means a freeze on the Hiring of New Air Traffic Controllers.
Democrats on the house Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Wnedned at the time, “Hiring Air Traffic Controllers is the number one Safety Issue According to the Entire Aviation Industry. Instead of Working to Improve Aviation Safety and Lower Costs for Hardworking American Families, The Administration is Choosing to Spread Bogus of the Claims to Justify This decision. ”
This has done nothing to address the fears and world among the faa's rank-and-file Air Traffic controllers, who have long been overworked and frayed for resons that have nothing to do with what trump and conservatives Lambast as “gods.” In Certin Control Towers, The Trump Administration's Efforts at Federal Shock-Therapy Have I do only exactbated Their Long-Standing Problems.
According to Documents Obtained by The New York Times, On Thursday Night – AS Authorities Continued to SIFT Through the Wreckage in the Potomac – Faa Employees and Air Traffic Controllers Received an email encouraging them to start look for other Jobs. “We encourage you to find a job in the private sector as soon as You would like to do so,” The email read. “The Way to Greater American Prosperity is encouraging People to Move from Lower Productivity Jobs in The Public Sector to Higher Productivity Jobs in the Private Sector.”
Office Cultures of Underlying Paranoia and Unaease Have Only Gotten Worse since the DCA Crash, The Sources Tell Rolling Stonein part because Trump is using the Deadly Incident to Further Target Diversity Hiring at the Faa and to Stress His Need for Trumpian “Competence” and an overhaul at the agency.
“Am i going to get an email from president Elon Tomorrow That Makes My Job Impossible to do?” Says One of the Sources. “In this Administration, Who The Hell Knows? Maybe? “
