The Trump administration began to dismiss hundreds of employees of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), according to the Professional Syndicate of Aviation Specialists (PASS), weeks after a plane collision in the Mortal air in Washington DC.
Several hundred probation workers from the agency – who have generally been in their post for less than a year – have received the news by email late Friday evening, a press release from Pass, said Alex Spero.
He is part of a cost reduction reader, trained by Elon Musk Government Department (DOGE)which aims to considerably reduce the federal workforce.
Spero called “shameful” dismissals and said they “increase the workload and place new responsibilities on a workforce that is already stretched”.
The BBC contacted the FAA and the Ministry of Transport for Comments.
According to the Spero Declaration, affected workers include systems specialists, security inspectors, maintenance mechanisms and administrative staff, among others.
Criticizing this decision, Spero declared that the FAA was “already challenged by the lack of staff” and that the decision to cut the staff was “unacceptable following three accidents of fatal aircraft in the last month”, including THE Mortal crash at Ronald Reagan Airport by Washington DC, in which 67 people were killed.
Jason King, who is one of those who are dismissed, said they were worried about the impact of this decision -making decision.
He told Wusa9, a subsidiary of the American partner of the BBC CBS, to dismiss persons directly involved in air security is “concerning public security in our national airspace”.
Mr. King, whose FAA work directly involved security problems, said the cuts “threaten public confidence and increase the probability of future accidents”.
“Aviation security should never be treated as a budgetary element that can be completely reduced,” he added.
On Monday, an Elon Musk Spacex team was ready to visit the FAA to suggest improvements to the United States air traffic control system after the Washington DC plane collision in January.
Although the National Transport Safety Board has not yet determined the cause of the collision, the levels of personnel in air traffic control at the airport would have been lower than the normal levels on the evening of the accident.
Transport secretary, Sean Duffy, said that the visit to the Spacex team at the FAA would give them a “first -hand overview on the current system” and would allow them to understand how they do “a new control system World -class air traffic that is the desire for the world. “
He added that he planned to visit the FAA Academy – which offers organizational training – later this week, to learn more about the education of staff members ” And how we can make sure that the best guide our plane. “
President Donald Trump caused controversy last month When he suggested that the diversity programs supported by his predecessors had lowered the hiring standards that could have affected the Washington DC plane crash.
The Trump administration has ordered government agencies to dismiss almost all their probationary employees, who have not yet obtained employment protection. This is a decision that could potentially affect hundreds of thousands of people.
Among those who lose their jobs in Friday cuts, there were half of the centers of so-called “detective” of the disease of the disease, Multiple Health managers told CBS.
Researchers – officially agents who serve in a two -year program in the organization’s epidemic intelligence service – are often deployed on the front line of the main epidemics of diseases.
Many program members have increased in the ranks of the agency.
President Trump also asked the Supreme Court to allow him To dismiss the head of an independent ethics agency This protects federal denunciation employees.
Hampton Dellinger, the head of the US special council office, continued Trump administration after being dismissed last month.
It is believed that this is the first case linked to the Trump’s executive series to reach the highest courtyard in the country.
Since his entry into office, the president has reduced more than a dozen general inspectors in various federal agencies.
