Subject: Re: Trump looking for answers on plane crash
--The Federal Aviation Administration’s leader stepped down on Jan. 20, months after Elon Musk demanded that he quit.

The move by Michael Whitaker means the FAA has no Senate-confirmed leader for one of the biggest crises in its history because he quit before Donald Trump took office.--

oh, how perfectly fucking lovely. there’s no one heading up the FAA right now because the Space Nazi had a personal vendetta against the guy who was running it.

Perhaps this might also be an opportunity to remind everyone that air traffic controllers are federal employees. So maybe offering a buyout to every civilian federal employee might not be the best thing for air traffic safety, given that we're already short of controllers in the first place. Obviously the buyout didn't have any impact on this crash. But it's always worth mentioning that the overwhelming majority of federal employees aren't bureaucrats working remotely out of the office drafting regulations that Republicans don't like, but instead are overwhelmingly people that work in VA hospitals and civilian positions on military bases and in penitentiaries and on the border patrol....

....and in airport traffic control towers.