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“… “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.
During Trump’s first administration, however, FAA conducted similar initiatives to recruit and hire people with disabilities.
Shortly after a door blew out on a plane in January 2024, Fox News published an article headlined “FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with ‘severe intellectual’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilities.”
The original article seems to have been taken down (although a similar article is still up on its website), but it was republished by the New York Post and shared on social media at the time by Elon Musk, the leader of the newly established Department of Government Efficiency.
The fact-checking website Snopes, however, pointed out that the language from the FAA’s website that Fox News highlighted, which discusses hiring of people with targeted disabilities, was present for all of Trump’s first term and had been published as early as 2013.
Targeted disabilities are generally manifest, such as deafness, blindness, significant mobility impairments and intellectual disabilities.
“The implication that the policy is new, or that it stems from efforts that began under U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and President Biden, was demonstrably false,” Snopes investigative journalist Alex Kasprak wrote.
… Additionally, during Trump’s first term, FAA launched a pilot program in 2019 to enroll up to 20 people with disabilities in training for careers in air traffic operations. …”
“… “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.
During Trump’s first administration, however, FAA conducted similar initiatives to recruit and hire people with disabilities.
Shortly after a door blew out on a plane in January 2024, Fox News published an article headlined “FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with ‘severe intellectual’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilities.”
The original article seems to have been taken down (although a similar article is still up on its website), but it was republished by the New York Post and shared on social media at the time by Elon Musk, the leader of the newly established Department of Government Efficiency.
The fact-checking website Snopes, however, pointed out that the language from the FAA’s website that Fox News highlighted, which discusses hiring of people with targeted disabilities, was present for all of Trump’s first term and had been published as early as 2013.
Targeted disabilities are generally manifest, such as deafness, blindness, significant mobility impairments and intellectual disabilities.
“The implication that the policy is new, or that it stems from efforts that began under U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and President Biden, was demonstrably false,” Snopes investigative journalist Alex Kasprak wrote.
… Additionally, during Trump’s first term, FAA launched a pilot program in 2019 to enroll up to 20 people with disabilities in training for careers in air traffic operations. …”