Vice President JD Vance doubled down President Donald Trump’s blaming the Biden administration’s diversity, equity, and inclusion policies in leaving U.S. air traffic control staffing short after a pair of deadly aviation crashes in the past week.
“[Trump] was being very explicit about the fact that DEI policies have led our air traffic controllers to be very short staffed: That is a scandal,” Vance said in a televised interview that aired Sunday morning. “Thankfully it is a scandal that the president has stopped.
“So, there are two big issues here: No. 1, most importantly, again, you’ve got to have the right people in air traffic control. Air traffic control is short-staffed. And I think the elimination of DEI hires and DEI policies will allow us actually to hire the air traffic controllers that we need.”
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