In May of 2024 Joe Biden signed a bill that provided funds to hire more air traffic controllers to remedy the shortage of such workers. In January of 2025 Trump fired the head of the FAA (because Musk had beef with him) and encouraged federal workers to resign. www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/p... - ThreadSky

sethcotlar.bsky.social • 23 days ago

In May of 2024 Joe Biden signed a bill that provided funds to hire more air traffic controllers to remedy the shortage of such workers. In January of 2025 Trump fired the head of the FAA (because Musk had beef with him) and encouraged federal workers to resign. https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/politics/joe-biden-signs-bipartisan-faa-reauthorization/index.html

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esmewrites.bsky.social•23 days ago

explicitly bcause of this bill that my 27yo neice in June switched careers, passed the tests, and is currently at an ATC training facility in OK

hkfinan.bsky.social•23 days ago

They’ve been banging on about “Destroying the Administrative State” for years. This is what that looks like.

nancyworld.bsky.social•23 days ago

Eggzackly.

trenchdiggr.bsky.social•23 days ago

And the beef Musk had with the head of the FAA? The FAA head wanted to fine SpaceX to get them to *comply with safety standards*. Reckless incompetents all around.

harlowe33.bsky.social•23 days ago

This is going to get much worse.

leobaezchava.bsky.social•23 days ago

juliecap.bsky.social•23 days ago

Whatever happens it's a guarentee that orange pos blames Biden

nancyworld.bsky.social•23 days ago

📌 FAA and air traffic controllers, Biden and Trump compared.

tinashakh.bsky.social•23 days ago

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tinashakh.bsky.social•23 days ago

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signalman67.bsky.social•23 days ago

The answer is before Trump supporters. In a conversation with an uneducated Trump supporter, I said that Trump could sign an executive order to lower the price of gas, eggs, and groceries. He said, did you think Trump was going to control prices? That would be communism. YOU are the problem, not us

anubisthejackal.bsky.social•23 days ago

Things that make you go ... hmmmm.

lizafella.bsky.social•23 days ago

Endangering American lives and being directly responsible for the deaths of the citizens you're bound to serve is A-OK?

augusnonna72.bsky.social•23 days ago

Such thin skinned cowardly man babies!

5narktwain.bsky.social•22 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/5narktwain.bsky.social/post/3lh2lqagcs22n

jonathanmlewis.bsky.social•23 days ago

The old Trump smokescreen for incompetence along with a big slice of scapegoating the pilots.

astill73.bsky.social•23 days ago

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professorfate.bsky.social•22 days ago

And in 2023, a key element in the GOP's customary attempt to destroy American governance through CR hostage-taking was massive cuts to the FAA. The Right has been longing for an event like this for years.

uniongal.bsky.social•23 days ago

I got to listen to the controllers and wow. They were stacking them in and told the blackhawke about the stack and they said yep, they saw them, multiple times. They were so quick to move the stacked flights out and save all of those lives and they were about to land.

uniongal.bsky.social•23 days ago

Honestly, super human controllers who re-routed and corrected folks to get help over to the flight and copter. I can’t imagine how they’re holding up now, after Trump blamed DEI (nonsense)

https://youtu.be/hfgllf1L9_4?si=ayozHphG-nClvVgo

brahmavihara.bsky.social•23 days ago

THIS is Trump's version of America.
And THIS doesn't end well.

lauriesus.bsky.social•23 days ago

All air traffic controllers across the country should quit.

abuamirah1020.bsky.social•23 days ago

How many FAA workers voted for Trump? Aren't they getting what they voted for? There's this song about leopards eating people's faces, maybe they should listen to it

406inthelou.bsky.social•22 days ago

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sethcotlar.bsky.social•23 days ago

Sadly, we all know what happened next.

grooveholmes.bsky.social•23 days ago

I really wish Dems could forcefully pin blame with plain facts like this on them. With the lies and deceit that Rs are able to make stick regularly. It’s like fighting with two hands behind our backs.

harlowe33.bsky.social•23 days ago

I feel like it is us against maga, and now corporate democrats

We can't let them win.
We need to do something.

j-waller55.bsky.social•23 days ago

No, we don't. That is unless you are privy to evidence and findings by the NTSB that don't yet exist.

amygstarks.bsky.social•23 days ago

Musk had a beef w him because the former head of FAA was critical of SpaceX…

freyalux.bsky.social•22 days ago

Exactly! And who’s trying to take all of it away to stroke his man baby ego?

chamawildlife.bsky.social•23 days ago

The "First Felon" thrives on chaos, suffering, and tragedy of families, fiends and others who lost people in the DCA crash. His comments attacking air traffic controllers, crew members of the planes, first responders, etc. is despicable!

smb6789.bsky.social•23 days ago

Did any air traffic controllers get hired?
Why are there still so many vacancies?

lcadler.bsky.social•23 days ago

The process to become an atc takes 2 or more years from start to finish. The first batch from the hiring push should be starting recently or coming in soon, if Trump doesn't shut it down and freeze it.

brezonmusic.bsky.social•23 days ago

saramanchester.bsky.social•23 days ago

Seriously, these Kansas people voted for this. Let them suffer the loss so they might understand why orange monster is evil.

formermoderatedem.bsky.social•23 days ago

Did you know it almost happened the day before?

We had a warning. We had a close call, didn’t learn our lesson & let this happen. Just like this whole god damn second term. Same lesson repeated.

Our country’s original sin was feigning & waffling on equality.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/01/30/dc-plane-crash-updates-helicopter-potomac-reagan-airport/

daniele-gaither.bsky.social•23 days ago

Thank you for these receipts. 🧾

roadhog282.bsky.social•23 days ago

This is why the liar and chief was so quick to place blame. We have share this information to push back on his lies.

shenloop.bsky.social•23 days ago

A+

lcwlaw1.bsky.social•23 days ago

Trump owns this. Dems need to make damn sure the public knows what his destructive policies and incompetence have wrought.
Do not let up!

devineone.bsky.social•23 days ago

I’m shocked he still hand with mask, I would’ve thought that relationship would have exploded by now

shelmes.bsky.social•23 days ago

Should replace “beef” with $633,009 fine for safety violations.

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-proposes-633009-civil-penalties-against-spacex

dharmachameleon.bsky.social•23 days ago

Simple answer: stop travelling by air. It’s not safe.

leahleahbobeah.bsky.social•23 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/johnbonifaz.bsky.social/post/3lgylll6vzs2h

sknowsthatp.bsky.social•23 days ago

The 2nd paragraph of this is interesting bc it says that the FAA Reauthorization Act requires the administration to hire the maximum number of controllers.

jeffinerd.bsky.social•23 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/jeffrudd.bsky.social/post/3lgyl5tl62s2u

renaml.bsky.social•23 days ago

Let’s spread the facts like this instead of his stupid and vile lies

shayskid.bsky.social•23 days ago

The REAL problem is that Harris didn't get the job. Oh, she WON, but she didn't suck-off the richest dork on the planet to ensure that paid experts were able to alter the outcomes.

The "proof" is in the idiocy standing at that podium vomiting nonsense soup all over his ridiculous tie. Trump lies.

jennjvn.bsky.social•22 days ago

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kimclerner.bsky.social•23 days ago

How's come none of the crack reporters at today's press conference brought that up.

rebeccaamccoy.bsky.social•23 days ago

Because they only focus on what Trump says. Thus we get “Trump says DEI” stories all day instead of the relevant context.

dolorosasantos.bsky.social•23 days ago

Jan 16 - fireworks over earth

timhannapel.bsky.social•23 days ago

Thanks for observing that ATC’s were asked to resign. As if they’re not under enough stress, only 24 hours before the tragedy, those ATC’s supervising the DCA airspace received the notorious “fork in the road” email, part of Musk’s vile scheme to terrorize federal workers. Then people died.

liberalbeth.bsky.social•23 days ago

Looks like CNN is braver online

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