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No. Days before Trump took office, Whitaker had announced that he will step down. He was confirmed to serve a five-year term as FAA administrator in October 2023.

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.

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.