Hundreds were fired in the aviation security agency, the union says

The Trump administration has started firing to hundreds of federal aviation administration (FAA) employees, according to the professional aviation safety experts (Pass) Union, after a deadly mid-air plane collision at Washington DC.

Alex Sparo said that many hundreds of people of the agency have been in their positions for less than a year – a statement of a nearby head received news through email late Friday in a statement of nearby heads.

It is a part of a cost cut drive, which is driven by Government Efficiency Department of Elon Musk (DOGE)Its purpose is to drag the federal workforce.

Sparo called the firing “embarrassing” and said that they would “increase the charge and place new responsibilities on a task force that is already thin”.

The BBC has approached the FAA and the Transport Department for comment.

According to Sparo’s statement, the affected workers include system experts, security inspectors, maintenance mechanics and administrative staff.

Criticizing the move, Sparo said that the FAA has already been “challenged”, and that the decision to cut the employees was “unconscious after three deadly plane crash in the last month”, A deadly accident at Ronald Reagan Airport of Washington DC, killing 67 people,

Jason King, who is one of those, said he was worried about how the move would affect aviation security.

He told Wusa9, an associate of BBC American partner CBS, firing people directly associated with air security “belongs to public safety in our national airspace.”

Mr. King, whose FAA, was directly addressed to safety concerns in work, said the cuts “endanger public belief and increase the possibility of future accidents.”

“Aviation safety should never be considered as a budget item, which can only be completely cut off,” he said.

On Monday, a team of SpaceX of Elon Musk was designed to visit the FAA to suggest improvement in America’s 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 level of staffing at the airport at the airport was below the normal level on the evening of the accident.

Transport Secretary Sean Dafi said that the SpaceX team’s visit for FAA would give them a “look at the current system”, and will allow them to find out how they create a new, world -class air traffic control system. Be jealous of the world. ,

He said that he is planning to visit the FAA Academy – which provides training for the organization’s workforce – at the end of this week, to learn more about the education of the staff member “and how can we ensure how we can ensure Are only guide our aircraft “.

President Donald Trump created controversy last month When he suggested that his predecessors supported by his predecessors reduced the standards affecting the Washington DC aircraft accident.

The Trump administration has ordered government agencies to set fire to all their priest employees who have not yet earned job protection. This is a step that can potentially affect hundreds of thousands of people.

Several health officials told CBS that in Friday’s deduction, those who lost their jobs were half of the so -called “disease detectives” of disease control.

Researchers – officially in the two -year program in the organization’s epidemic intelligence service, the officers serving are often deployed on the lines of the outbreak of major disease.

Several members of the scheme have increased in the rank of the agency.

President Trump has also asked the Supreme Court to allow him to allow him To set fire to the head of an independent morality agency It protects the whistleblower federal employees.

The US Office of Special Council chief Hampton Deliner filed a case against the Trump administration after being fired last month.

It is believed that this is the first case related to the executive functions of Trump’s executive functions to reach the country’s highest court.

Since assuming office, the President has cut more than a dozen inspectors in various federal agencies.