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With a stick, my son becomes a knight, an explorer, an Octonaut. My boyfriend found one and did his best Gandalf ‘You shall not pass!’ bit, and so I grabbed one too,
The world order” could “start to evolve from the Arctic,
said Johanna Ikävalko, the director of the Arctic Centre Have you no respect for the families whose lives have been turned upside down?”
It was unvaccinated children who died,
Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring.
The report quotes the Biden-era FAA's website's promotion of diversity hiring and states The FAA website states they include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism all qualified for the position of a controller of air planes pouring into our country, pouring into a little spot
Trump, quoting from the passage as he addressed reporters in the White House Press Briefing room, said It may have, I don't know
But at another point, asked if race and gender played a role in the tragic accident, Trump said This morning, as 67 families were waiting in unapproachable grief desperate to find out what happened to their loved ones, the president of the United States took that moment of their tragedy, the tragedy for these people who I’m confident are not concerned with politics right now, to, without any evidence whatsoever, blame DEI and Democrats for the deadly plane crash,
I’m trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion right now that diversity had something to do with this crash?”
The “Late Show” host aired a clip of Trump being asked at the press briefing FAA employees with disabilities did not cause last night's tragic plane crash. DEI hiring did not cause last night's plane crash. Using this tragedy to push the president's anti-diversity hiring agenda is inappropriate and wrong. It does nothing to make Americans safer."
The American Association of People with Disabilities in a statement On my second day in office, I ordered an immediate return to merit-based recruitment, hiring, and promotion, elevating safety and ability as the paramount standard. Yesterday's devastating accident tragically underscores the need to elevate safety and competence as the priority of the FAA."
Trump's Immediate Assessment of Aviation Safety Executive Order FAA investigators are supporting the NTSB-led investigation of Wednesday night's midair collision near Reagan Washington National Airport. The NTSB is leading the investigation and will provide all updates. We cannot comment on any aspect of open investigations. The FAA will quickly take any actions necessary based on evidence from the investigation."
The FAA said in a statement Most of the leaders I speak to absolutely see the value [of diversity],
said Tarang Amin, the CEO of e.l.f. Beauty, a cosmetics company that has stood behind its DEI programs Among other things, a diverse group of employees helps bring originality and creativity to our merchandise offerings, promoting the ‘treasure hunt’ that our customers value,
Costco said in its proxy statement to investors At its best, DEI is about developing talent, measuring it in a fair way and finding hidden talent and disadvantaged talent in a world where not everybody has an equal chance to exhibit their abilities,
Ken Frazier, the first Black chief executive of a major pharmaceutical company, told CNN in an October interview When you talk about staffing issues, sure, the control room is a problem. But you know what else is a problem? That there’s no head of the FAA,
said the host of “The Five,” who noted that the last FAA chief Michael Whitaker stepped down after Elon Musk tried to “push him out” for months DEI is not a scapegoat for everything,
she said of the popular right-wing talking point We have no head of the Coast Guard and, they have in the first week in office, gutted this key Aviation safety advisory committee.”
These DEI policies were put in place in 2013, he had every opportunity through his first administration to revoke them if he thought they were terrible but he didn’t,
noted Tarlov, echoing a point made by NBC News chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander during Trump’s press briefing on the disaster And he is saying with a lot of certainty that the blame is on DEI and the blame is in some ways on air traffic control and air traffic controller hiring.”
