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Mark Pocan: “We're firing people at the Federal Aviation offices.”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Published | Video Starts at 48:00

Which is why we fired people who work on nuclear weapons, only to try to rehire them. Why We're firing people at the Federal Aviation offices. When right now we kind of need all the air traffic controllers we can get. We're not directly firing air traffic controllers, but we did actions that made it harder for them and on and on and on. (48:00–48:05)

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Asserts that employees at Federal Aviation offices are being fired.

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