POTUS Donnie resurrects last year’s Senate plant to privatize Air Traffic Control, but has anyone asked why it died in the House which has been under GOP control for the past few years – PB/TK
White House formally backs plan to transfer air traffic control system to private corporation – By Ashley Halsey III and John Wagner / June 5 2017
The White House on Monday formally endorsed a plan to spin off more than 30,000 federal workers into a private, nonprofit corporation, separating the nation’s air traffic controllers and those who work on a $36 billion modernization program from the Federal Aviation Administration.
The Trump administration proposal essentially is an endorsement of a plan that failed to gain sufficient traction in Congress last year. It is in keeping with the desire of the administration and congressional Republicans to streamline government and transfer some functions into private hands.
President Trump said that during the Obama administration, the FAA “didn’t know what the hell they were doing” in spending $7 billion to modernize the aviation system.
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