Hundreds of FAA employees, fired by the Trump administration, says Union says

The Trump administration has begun to fire hundreds of federal aviation administration officials (FAA), according to the Professional Union of Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS), weeks after a fatal confrontation of the aircraft in Washington in Washington.

Several hundred breakthroughs of the agency – who generally have been in their positions for less than a year – received the news on an email late on Friday night, said a statement from Pass’s head, Alex Speo said.

This is part of driving to reduce costs driven by The Ministry of Government of Elon Musk (Doge)This is intended to drastically cut off the federal workforce.

Special called the dismissal “shameful” and said he “would increase the load and put new responsibilities on a workforce that is already stretched.”

The BBC contacted FAA and the Ministry of Transport for comment.

According to Spero’s statement, affected workers include system specialists, safety inspectors, maintenance mechanics and administrative staff.

Critten this move, Spero said the FAA was “already contested by the disadvantage” and that the decision to reduce staff was “not compliant after three deadly accidents on the aircraft over the past month”, including The The A deadly crash at the Ronald Reagan Airport of Washington, which killed 67 peopleS

Jason King, who is among the fired, said he was worried about how the move would affect aviation safety.

He told WUSA9, a branch of the US partner of the BBC, the dismissal of people directly engaged in air safety, is “about public safety in our national airspace.”

G -H King, whose work in the FAA participated directly in dealing with safety concerns, said the abbreviations “threaten public confidence and increase the likelihood of future accidents.”

“Aviation safety should never be treated as a budget item that can simply be completely shortened,” he added.

On Monday, an Elon Musk SpaceX team was ready to visit FAA to offer improvements to the US Air Traffic Control System after a Washington airplane clash in January.

Although the National Transport Safety Council has not yet determined the cause of the collision, staff levels in air traffic control at the airport, it is reported that it is below normal levels of the crash.

Transport Secretary Sean Duffy said a visit to the SpaceX team to the FAA will give them a “first -hand look of the current system” and allow them to understand how they make a “new world -class aerial control system that will be Envy in the world.

He added that he plans to visit the FAA Academy – which provides training for the workforce of the organization – later this week to learn more about the education of employees’ employees “and how we can guarantee that only the best presenter ours plane. “

President Donald Trump caused a dispute last month When he offered the variety programs supported by his predecessors, they reduced the rental standards that could influence Washington’s plane crash.

The Trump administration ordered government agencies to fire almost all their test staff who have not yet won job protection. This is a move that could potentially affect hundreds of thousands of people.

Among those who lose their work on cuts on Friday were half of the centers of so -called “disease detectives” of Cens Control Control, many health officials told CBS.

Researchers – official employees who serve in a two -year program in the epidemic intelligence of the organization – are often deployed on the front lines of large outbreaks of disease.

Many members of the scheme continued to increase in the ranks of the agency.

President Trump also asked the Supreme Court to allow him to fire the head of an independent ethics agency This protects Federal officials at Whistlelower.

Hampton Delinger, head of the US Special Attorney Service, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration after being fired last month.

This is believed to be the first case related to Trump’s enforcement series to reach the highest court in the country.

Since taking office, the President has shortened more than a dozen general inspectors to various federal agencies.