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Sean Duffy: “We laid off temporary, not temporary, but employees who had…”

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

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The World Over March 20, 2025 Full Episode Sec. Sean Duffy, Kansas Re-Consecration, Francis Photo

Published | Video Starts at 20:01

And you've had, what, 400 layoffs here at the Transportation Department? There's 45,000 plus employees at the FAA. So we. We laid off temporary, not temporary, but employees who had been there for less than a year. That's 0.8% of workforce. Raymond. They weren't safety jobs. These were not, you know, Boeing inspectors. They weren't air traffic controllers. Actually, we hired more people into those positions. (20:01–20:07)

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Asserts that recent layoffs at the FAA affected 0.8% of the workforce, specifically employees with less than a year of service.

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