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Sean Duffy: “The FAA has 46,000 employees, and if you lost 350, is this…”

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

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Meet the Press Interview with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Newark Airport Safety Concerns

Published | Video Starts at 09:49

Those are employees who were there less than a year unless. And again, we excluded the safety positions. Most of them have come back. So again, to say a department, The FAA has 46,000 employees, and if you lost 350, is this affecting our safety mission? There's a lot of things the FAA does, but for us, safety is key. So, no, we've retained all those safety positions. You're saying some were fired, some were brought back. (09:49–09:57)

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