From the article:
reply> The crash has raised fears that operations at US airports are under extreme stress. Airports have been dealing with a shortage of air traffic controllers, exacerbated by brutal federal government personnel cuts by Donald Trump’s administration at the start of his second presidency.
Not my opinion, just reading from there.
So where there budget cuts or not? That was the claim. I have yet to find anything that suggests there were budget cuts, just vague mentions of "brutal federal government personnel cuts".
replyI'm just looking for: budget was X in <2026 and in 2026 it is Y, where X > Y
Analyze staffing, not budget. That gets more directly at workload.
replyNotably 2025 was also the year that Elon started firing people and shutting down things that were in the budget, as well as several shutdowns.
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