FAA Staff Starves While Congress Funds Foreign Wars
While air traffic controllers, those folks preventing 747s from becoming expensive confetti, face missing their entire paycheck due to Congressional gridlock, the same legislative body has no problem green-lighting billions for overseas conflicts. Just last month, the House passed HR 8070, the 'National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025,' authorizing $883.7 billion. (Source:
Congress.gov). Meanwhile, essential domestic services like the FAA are left dangling by a fiscal thread. One might wonder where the 'national' in 'national defense' really lies. This isn't a new phenomenon. When it comes to funding the military-industrial complex or allies abroad, the purse strings are wide open. Yet, investing in the actual safety of the American traveling public seems to be an
optional extra. How many 'urgent' bipartisan efforts will be launched to prevent our own skies from becoming dangerous, compared to those to ensure ammunition stocks for proxy wars? The contrast is stark, and for FAA workers, painfully real.