Posted on 01/30/2025 10:44:28 AM PST by DallasBiff
Amid a rash of actions to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the federal government, President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued a memo that scrutinizes workers with disabilities at the Federal Aviation Administration.
The directive “Keeping Americans Safe in Aviation” said, based on the FAA website, that former President Joe Biden’s administration sought to recruit and hire “individuals with serious infirmities that could impact the execution of their essential life-saving duties.”
The memo directs the FAA “to immediately return to non-discriminatory, merit-based hiring” and rescind DEI initiatives in hiring. Trump also is requiring the agency to review the performance and performance standards of all employees in “critical safety positions” and replace any who fail to show the necessary proficiency with a “high-capability individual.”
“The Biden FAA specifically recruited and hired individuals with ‘severe intellectual’ disabilities, psychiatric issues and complete paralysis over other individuals who sought to work for the FAA,” an accompanying White House fact sheet said.
(Excerpt) Read more at govexec.com ...
Well it's 2025 and Trump is doing his best to drain the DEI swamp.
Hee hee ... ONLY intellectual disabilities, idiot leftists.
Trump said the hiring and firing would be merit-based and based on competency, not based on disabilities.
DJT wants to get intellectually and mentally incompetent people out of the government workforce. I’m not seeing a problem here.
“The Biden FAA specifically recruited and hired individuals with ‘severe intellectual’ disabilities, psychiatric issues and complete paralysis over other individuals who sought to work for the FAA,” an accompanying White House fact sheet said.
The plain simple facts: “The Biden FAA specifically recruited and hired individuals with ‘severe intellectual’ disabilities, psychiatric issues and complete paralysis over other individuals who sought to work for the FAA”
The media take on the facts: “FAA employees with disabilities targeted by Trump’s anti-DEI push”
Special treatment is NOT equal treatment!
"Government Executive is an American trade magazine, founded in 1969. It was purchased in 1987 by National Journal, which itself was purchased in 1997 by the Atlantic Media Company, owned by David Bradley. The magazine is distributed free to senior executives in federal, state and local governments.
https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0018087#:~:text=Summary,federal%2C%20state%20and%20local%20governments.
Biased much? Another Leftist, pro-big gov't rag, of the gov't, by the gov't, for the gov't.
Leftists: “No, dammit! We demand more crazy, incompetent air traffic controllers!”
Well, I really think that they’d have to draw the line at a blind air traffic controller, for example.
Yeah, kinda stupid to have blind, or near blind people in traffic control or flying anything. Bet DEI allowed it.
Seriously?
Transgendrism is a psychiatric issue. It is a mental health issue manifest in an identity dysphoria brought about by an errant mental obsession that rejects one’s own body. It requires “gender affirming” sympathetic, compassionate mental health care, to affirm the person’s biological sex and rid the mind of the gender dysphoria.
Am surprised that this piece appeared in Government Executive.
“””Government Executive is a news publication owned by GovExec, the market-leading information platform that catalyzes the government mission, empowering the full government ecosystem to achieve its missions through data that informs, media that connects, and marketing services that activate.”””
From their website. GOV EXEC is one of the many organizations that support Big Gov.
No surprise they are blaming Trump.
DO NOT FORGET THE “DWARF’s” AND EPILEPSY
From 2020, might explain a lot...
Someone similar to Governor Abbott is not the same as Helen Keller.
What did they hire?
“””Am surprised that this piece appeared in Government Executive.”””
Really??? Click on the Gov Exec link and go to their about page and see if you are still surprised.
See my reply #17...
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