![]()
Karoline Leavitt White House Press Briefing On 1/31/25
Thanks, Karoline. If President Trump is telling us that air traffic control towers are staffed with unqualified controllers, these DEI hires who never should have been brought on, then it's not safe to fly commercially, is it?
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (08:37):
The President was asked and answered this yesterday, and he believes that it is still indeed safe and Americans should feel safe traveling our skies. With that said, two things can be true at the same time, and we certainly have seen the deterioration of federal hiring standards at the Federal Aviation Administration, and the President wants to increase those standards. He wants pilots in this country who have the great responsibility of flying American citizens by the tens of millions every single day to be chosen for that position based on their merit and their skills. And so the administration will continue to prioritize this.
No, Karoline, those two opposites cannot be both true. It cannot be both safe and unsafe at the same time.
