Here's what I can tell you. For about three decades, the number of air traffic controllers in this country went down. We worked hard to make it go back up. And I was the first secretary in decades to hand my successor an air traffic control workforce that was growing instead of shrinking. When we left, it was a little bit shy of 11,000. I know that right away, air traffic controllers got an email, the notorious Elon email, saying, you should go work in the private sector instead. (10:25–10:34)
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Asserts that Pete Buttigieg left office with a growing air traffic control workforce.
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