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Sean Duffy: “We exempted people who work in critical safety positions…”

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

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Transportation Secretary Duffy in Los Angeles talking about the High-Speed Rail project

Published | Video Starts at 23:48

And, and the employees that were laid off were temp. Were, were, were employed for less than a year. So these are not the highest, the highest skilled members of the faa. Not only that, We exempted people who work in critical safety positions like air traffic controllers, like inspectors. They were all exempt. And by the way, we're actually hiring more inspectors, more air traffic controllers. So we're building up those critical positions. (23:48–23:55)

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Asserts that critical safety positions at the FAA were exempt from layoffs.

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