US Air Traffic Control Facilities Are Understaffed

The issue doesn’t seem to be that ATCs are under-qualified (which is what the link implies and what Trump is saying, without evidence of course).

The biographical questionnaire (terrible idea if indeed was the way described) was canceled in 2015 - thats 10 year ago so it also doesn’t explain why towers are understaffed _today_.

The biggest reason for understaffing is typically lack of funding. That’s what I would want to know. But the NYT is scant on details as to why there is understaffing.

Yes everyone knows that at leaat in one area DEI policy has lead to a decline in the qaulity of vital government services. But Trump’s anti-DEI campaign isn’t doing much to fix this; in fact, he’s probably doing more harm than any of those policies.