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🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Deep DOGE cuts to the FAA have hit the agency hard. Is the public still safe to fly? Isaac Stanley-Becker, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why DOGE layoffs mean safety technicians and other critical roles are understaffed – and why a smoothly running airport system in America is beneficial for the nation’s bottom line. His article is “The FAA’s Troubles Are More Serious Than You Know.”
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0:38.3 | Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency are making chainsaw cuts to a large number of federal agencies whose functions might once have been viewed as sacrosanct. |
1:00.8 | But the changes he wants to make at the FAA are next level. |
1:05.1 | Because in addition to pushing more than 1,300 workers out the door and freezing hires for the time being. |
1:11.9 | Musk also wants to change an established contract for modernizing communication systems at the FAA, |
1:18.6 | so one of his companies can do part of the gig instead. |
1:22.3 | From KERA in Dallas, this is Think. |
1:25.2 | I'm Chris Boyd. |
1:26.5 | While some critics are concerned about the potential |
1:28.5 | for compromised aviation safety and conflicts of interest, for now, what we know is that all |
1:34.1 | this rapid change has been a recipe for low morale and high anxiety among remaining FAA staffers. |
1:40.5 | Isaac Stanley Becker is a staff writer at the Atlantic where he reported on all of this in his article, |
1:45.8 | the FAA's troubles are more serious than you know. Isaac, welcome to think. |
1:50.7 | It's great to be with you. |
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