JD Vance Blames “DEI Regime” For DC Air Collision

“The president made very clear that he wasn’t blaming anybody, but he was being very explicit about the fact that DEI policies have led our air traffic controllers to be short staffed. That is a scandal. Thankfully, it’s a scandal that the president has stopped.

“We have a massive shortage of air traffic controllers. And in fact, there have been a number of lawsuits from people who would like to become air traffic controllers against the Obama and Biden administrations, who basically said, we were told not even to apply because of the color of our skin, because they were white people who wanted to be air traffic controllers. And under the DEI regime of the Biden administration, they weren’t welcome.

“Well, what does that mean? Number one, it means that we don’t have the best and the brightest sometimes in these positions. But even more importantly than that, even when we do get really good people, they’re going to be way overstressed because they’re working long hours because air traffic controllers are short-staffed. I think the elimination of DEI hires and DEI policies will allow us actually to hire the air traffic controllers that we need.” – JD Vance, today on Fox News.

BARTIROMO: Do you have any evidence that any of those hires that were there at the control Wednesday night were DEI hires?

JD VANCE: This is not saying that the person at the control was a DEI hire, but …

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM