Summary
Two planes collided while taxiing at Reagan National Airport, one carrying lawmakers including Rep. Josh Gottheimer, who blamed the incident on Trump-era FAA staffing cuts.
The White House denied cuts occurred, despite confirmed reductions of 400 FAA positions in February.
Rep. Adriano Espaillat described feeling the impact and accused the administration of misleading the public about aviation safety.
The crash follows a series of safety failures at Reagan, including a fatal January collision and an air traffic control tower fight last week that led to arrests and firings.
The White House is now asking people in power to forget the evidence of their eyes and ears.
Two planes bumped wings while taxiing on the runway at Reagan National Airport Thursday, marking yet another critical safety failure at one of the nation’s major airports. One of the planes carried several U.S. lawmakers, including Representative Josh Gottheimer, who blamed the incident on the Trump administration’s recent cuts to the Federal Aviation Administration, claiming that slashes to the agency “weaken our skies and public safety.”
“That is, however, not exactly honest…”
Stop with the fucking doublespeak and have some god damned integrity. The word is “lie” the administration “lied.”
I think there might be a legal issue where if they say “lie” they need to be able to prove intent to deceive or get sued. It’s dumb but that could be the reason behind the wording.
Ok, I’ve been hearing about this for years and I’m tired of the argument so I propose we create a new word that means: its an obvious lie but I can’t say that because I don’t want to do court stuff.
That word = Fonked
“The trump administration fonked again today…”
Is flying just not a good idea within the next 3.8 years? Or is it wise to boycott until they reinstate all the air traffic controllers?
Yup. This is a Republican caused crash. At least this is on the ground, next Republican-caused crash may not be so lucky.
We didn’t have all these problems when a gay man was in charge. ☕
Just to put the icing on the cake, an aircraft just went down in Boca Raton
And a tourist chopper in NYC 6 dead.
