Keeping Americans Safe in Aviation

What Presidential Memorandum 2025-02099 says

Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 20 (Friday, January 31, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 20 (Friday, January 31, 2025)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 8651-8652] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-02099] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 20 / Friday, January 31, 2025 / Presidential Documents [[Page 8651]] Memorandum of January 21, 2025 Keeping Americans Safe in Aviation Memorandum for the Secretary of Transportation [and] the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration Every day, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), within the U.S. Department of Transportation, oversees safety for more than 45,000 flights and 2.9 million airline passengers. These Americans trust the FAA's public servants with their lives, and it is therefore imperative that they maintain a commitment to excellence and efficiency. During the prior administration, however, the FAA betrayed its mission by elevating dangerous discrimination over excellence. For example, prior to my Inauguration, the FAA Diversity and Inclusion website revealed that the prior administration sought to specifically recruit and hire individuals with serious infirmities that could impact the execution of their essential life-saving duties. Illegal and discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hiring, including...

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