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Sean Duffy: “During COVID there was an issue where they shut down the…”

Featuring: Sean Duffy, Republican | Secretary of Transportation | National

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Sean Duffy_ There is a number of issues hiring air traffic controllers.

Published | Video Starts at 04:38

Is it, as you mentioned, the recruiting, the retention issue, is it a mix of those things? There's, there's a number of issues. So During COVID there was an issue where they shut down the academies. And then when the academies reopened, the class sizes were smaller. And then even though our graduates from the academy got out, they couldn't get into a tower to, to train up. (04:38–04:44)

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Asserts that air traffic control academies were shut down during COVID.

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