But on this issue, again, and I think it might not have been intentional, it might have been ham handed by some of the requests that were made by Doge. But my position was We are not going to fire air traffic controllers. Safety critical positions are not going to be fired within the Department of Transportation. We can do things more efficiently. There is fat that being cut, but we are not going to fire controllers. And so we had a little back and forth. (15:37–15:47)
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