The Trump-era FAA had the same language on its website: The FAA’s language encouraging the hiring of people with disabilities, including intellectual and psychiatric disabilities, was featured ...

Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger in August 2025 criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Federal Aviation Administration, saying, “We all deserve better.” ...

While Trump did sign a memorandum on Jan. 22, 2025, ending a Biden administration FAA hiring policy that he said " prioritized diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) over safety and efficiency ...

It appears that the first major air disaster in the United States since 2009 has occurred while the FAA does not have a permanent leader. At this time, Trump has not named a person to head the FAA ...

Trump needs to help fix the FAA and to stave off the damage caused by DEI. That means he will need to modernize the operation and cut through the bureaucratic red tape.

Trump takes executive action on aviation DEI, appointing FAA lead in wake of plane crash by: Alex Gangitano, The Hill Posted: Jan 30, 2025 / 03:39 PM CST Updated: Jan 30, 2025 / 04:41 PM CST ...

President Donald Trump wasted little time this week trying to assign blame for the nation’s deadliest air disaster in more than two decades. Among his chief targets: An FAA diversity hiring ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January ...

Space launch deregulation begins as President Trump signs order to relax FAA licensing and amend Part 450 rule to accelerate ...

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to streamline federal regulation governing commercial ...

A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to ...

The Trump-era FAA also pushed to hire people with disabilities: The federal government passed a law in 1973 that aimed to increase federal hiring of qualified people with disabilities.