The Trump Administration Is Spending $2 Million to Figure Out Whether DEI Causes Plane Crashes

[LetMyPeopleVote]

This waste of money is really both sad and amusing

The Trump Administration Is Spending Million to Figure Out Whether DEI Causes Plane Crashes. The answer is there is no causal relationship. But there is a direct causal relationship between firing hundreds of air traffic controllers and plane crashes. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) 2025-06-05T15:25:05.212Z

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/government-investigating-whether-dei-causes-plane-crashes/683038/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyaj7Ksyb0wiEttulLn7MdD0

When President Donald Trump blamed diversity, equity, and inclusion programs for the deadly January crash at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, some aviation officials were appalled. Some were simply perplexed. But few officials inside the Federal Aviation Administration took the president’s remarks seriously.

Not so for the political leadership of the Department of Transportation. The FAA’s parent agency agreed in March to spend as much as $2.1 million on an investigation into DEI policies and their impact on recent safety incidents. To conduct that investigation, the Trump administration has turned to Alex Spiro, a former prosecutor and a prominent defense attorney who has represented Elon Musk, among other billionaires and celebrities.

I obtained the “scope of work” document for Spiro’s investigation, which is marked “privileged” and “confidential” and has not been previously reported. It shows how the president’s musings—his accusations, he said at the time, were based on “very strong opinions and ideas”—translate into taxpayer-funded government action. It also reveals the cost of the administration’s fixation on DEI at a time when the FAA is struggling to hire and retain air-traffic controllers, linchpins of aviation safety, and when Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, is seeking funds to overhaul the country’s antiquated air-traffic-control system. Recent radar outages at Newark Liberty International Airport have caused severe flight delays and spotlighted just how deep technology and staffing problems run.

The investigation by Spiro, a partner at the elite firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, is due to conclude soon, a person familiar with the dynamics told me, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the confidentiality of the work. Contrary to what Trump may hope, it’s not expected to find that programs aimed at ensuring representation for women and people of color are responsible for this year’s string of aviation disasters, including the January crash at Reagan airport, which killed 67 people and prompted Trump’s tirade against DEI.....

A shortage of controllers means that the best and the brightest have been working long hours under stressful conditions, made worse by the departure of hundreds of FAA employees in crucial support roles who have accepted the government’s offer of early retirement. Duffy told Congress last month that his department “can do more with less,” suggesting that savings from staff reductions could be used to fund overdue infrastructure upgrades. And apparently investigations into DEI, as well.

[SheltieLover]

1. Kraznov is working hard to break the USA

[ananda]

2. The trumped-up study will show a DEI link..

so they can staff airports with all white males.

This is the goal for every part of government
and society.

[B.See]

13. That's because MAGA means MAWA...

always HAS. (for those only now just figuring it out)

[ananda]

15. And when they talk about "Americans" and "patriots"

or other types of groups, they mean strictly white people.

[B.See]

16. That's right. That's why

they're so busy running about trying to remove minorities' names from museums, from recognition for serving our country, from online databases, from the names of parks, streets, and ships, in some instances replacing them with the names of Confederate traitors...

why they're trying to discredit minority hires, barring travel from mostly Black and Brown countries ( while rolling out the red carpet for white S. Afrikaners),

trying to kill and outlaw diversity initiatives (formerly known as INTEGRATION),

trying to disappear minorities from American history itself.

Trump, Miller & Co. want to "take America back" (their original slogan) to a time when minorities were invisible.

[ananda]

17. And people can be used as slaves or indentured servants.

And modern healthcare is completely destroyed,
particularly for woman and the non-rich.

[B.See]

18. Funny thing about it is

MOST of the people who benefit from the so-called "entitlements" MAGAS are so eager to destroy are those of THEIR OWN CONSTITUENCY, in spite of myths to contrary.

[Keepthesoulalive]

3. Who is playing identity politics

The racism is strong with this one.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. So ... guns don't kill people but DEI causes plane crashes?

The same guys believe this?

[Takket]

5. these are the same people telling you cancer research, education, and feeding people is a waste of money

america is being destroyed, and we fired the shot ourselves.

[MuseRider]

6. Aren't ANY of these people embarrassed?

[JHB]

7. Hey Trumpniks, this is the "government waste" you're shouting about.

[Ping Tung]

8. DEI causes racists and imbeciles to reveal themselves for what they are.

[sop]

9. Charles Murray will author the study.

[eppur_se_muova]

10. That would be revealing if there were anything left to reveal re. this maladministration's metastasizing racism. nt

[RainCaster]

11. White House stupidity is the cause

Any idiot can see that we need more ATCs, not less. Except for TSF, the stable genius...

[k_buddy762]

12. What a waste of money

[Irish_Dem]

14. Trump is the one committing waste, fraud, abuse.