President Donald Trump has fired more than 10,000 federal workers, including with the FAA, IRS and more. Here's which agencies were affected and why.
Tim Miller, former RNC Spokesperson and John Heilelmann, Chief Political Columnist and Host of the "Impolitic" Podcast for Puck join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss the latest conflict of interest that Donald Trump is allowing involving Elon Musk’s Starlink which is set to score a massive government contract involving the FAA’s communication system,
The layoffs come amid ongoing concerns about flight safety following a spate of incidents involving aircraft in the U.S.
Fox News host Bill Hemmer challenged Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy after he slashed nearly 400 jobs at the Federal Aviation Administration amid airplane disasters. During a Monday interview, Duffy said he had instructed his employees to email Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to explain why they should keep their jobs.
One Democrat called the firings "stupid beyond belief" as staffing shortages at FAA put flight safety at risk.
The firings hit the FAA when it faces a shortfall in controllers. The Donald Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
It took only a month for Americans to turn on Donald Trump — but then again, the president has been working hard to alienate large swaths of the nation by heartlessly and indiscriminately firing federal employees,
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has blasted Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for suggesting President Trump was partly to blame for the Delta Air Lines jet that crash-landed and flipped over in Toronto,
President Donald Trump's administration continues to purge government workers across all departments, raising questions about the future of the Federal Aviation Administration and air traffic controllers.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand held a news conference Thursday demanding that President Donald Trump "answers" for firing Federal Aviation Administration employees.
After President Donald Trump suggested DEI policies at the FAA were to blame for recent plane crashes, conservative media continued to push the rhetoric. CNN’s Brian Stelter responds after Fox’s Laura Ingraham questioned diversity practices in the aviation industry.