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> this seems to be exacerbated by government cuts What government cuts? 2025 FAA air traffic budget was up around 7% from 2025 https://enotrans.org/article/se

• rglover 7mo ago
  From the article: > The crash has raised fears that operations at US airports are under extreme stress. Airports have been dealing with a shortage of air traffic controllers, exacerbated by brutal federal government personnel cuts by Donald Trump’s administration at the start of his second presidency. Not my opinion, just reading from there.
  • bko 7mo ago
    So where there budget cuts or not? That was the claim. I have yet to find anything that suggests there were budget cuts, just vague mentions of "brutal federal government personnel cuts". I'm just looking for: budget was X in <2026 and in 2026 it is Y, where X > Y
    • ridgeguy 7mo ago
      Analyze staffing, not budget. That gets more directly at workload.
    • rglover 7mo ago
      You said budget cuts, not me.
• sophacles 7mo ago
  Notably 2025 was also the year that Elon started firing people and shutting down things that were in the budget, as well as several shutdowns.