{"id":271206,"date":"2025-02-17T15:48:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T15:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/ap-trump-begins-firings-of-faa-air-traffic-control-staff-just-weeks-after-fatal-dc-plane-crash\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:09:20","slug":"ap-trump-begins-firings-of-faa-air-traffic-control-staff-just-weeks-after-fatal-dc-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/ap-trump-begins-firings-of-faa-air-traffic-control-staff-just-weeks-after-fatal-dc-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"AP: \u201cTrump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-55677\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Article <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/doge-faa-air-traffic-firings-safety-67981aec33b6ee72cbad8dcee31f3437\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When I read this, I\u2019m <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/story\/fact-check-did-trump-rail-rule-repeal-affect-ohio-train-derailment\/20734858\/\">reminded<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In 2015, during the Obama administration, a new safety rule was adopted requiring electronically controlled pneumatic brakes to be installed on all high-hazard flammable unit trains by 2023, allowing them to brake faster. Trump rescinded that requirement three years later.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And then (2023):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/east_palestine.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55678\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/east_palestine.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/east_palestine.png 1200w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/east_palestine-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/east_palestine-1024x574.png 1024w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/east_palestine-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/east_palestine-624x350.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/02\/05\/1228772709\/east-palestine-train-derailment-norfolk-southern-lawsuit-epa\">NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And in 2018, Trump disbands the NSC Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense.\u00a0 What did we get in 2020?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hassett_covid_5may20.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41587\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hassett_covid_5may20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hassett_covid_5may20.jpg 900w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hassett_covid_5may20-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hassett_covid_5may20-768x395.jpg 768w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hassett_covid_5may20-624x321.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouseCEA45\/status\/1257680258364555264\">CEA archived<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Total deaths from Covid by August 8, 2020 = 203,447.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\tThis entry was posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/02\/ap-trump-begins-firings-of-faa-air-traffic-control-staff-just-weeks-after-fatal-dc-plane-crash\" title=\"6:57 am\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2025-02-17T06:57:54-08:00\">February 17, 2025<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> by <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/author\/menzie_chinn\" title=\"View all posts by Menzie Chinn\" rel=\"author\">Menzie Chinn<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/02\/ap-trump-begins-firings-of-faa-air-traffic-control-staff-just-weeks-after-fatal-dc-plane-crash\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Article here. When I read this, I\u2019m reminded: In 2015, during the Obama administration, a new safety rule was adopted requiring electronically controlled pneumatic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}