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Sean Duffy: “We want the hiring decisions to be based on merit.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 13:10

And this is when we talk about safety, we're talking about getting on airplanes and flying through the airspace. So air traffic controllers and pilots and the mechanics and the machinists that build the planes. We want the hiring decisions to be based on merit. We want excellence. We want the best people in these jobs. Now we can have a conversation and should have a conversation about what communities are we drawing from. (13:10–13:15)

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Asserts that hiring decisions should be merit-based.

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