When you got to the department and became secretary, did you fire a bunch of air traffic control? I did not. Senator, did Mr. Musk do that? He did not. Where did all this stuff come from? So There were about 350 probationary employees at the FAA that were let go. And we're trying to stream. By the way, there's 46,000 people that work at the FAA, so this was a minuscule percentage. But even air traffic controllers who were probationary employees were excluded. (02:29–02:37)
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