‘Nobody’s Been Fired?’ Senate Dem Stunned Trump Admin Didn’t Punish Anyone For Pushing All Air Traffic Controls to Quit

Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) questioned Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy during a Senate hearing on Thursday about the ongoing air traffic control issues across the country and the recent emails sent to them soliciting their resignations.

Murray questioned, “Okay, well let me just say that since you became secretary, air traffic controllers have twice received ‘fork in the road’ emails encouraging them to resign, which you have sent—I know sent mistakenly—but it is…”

Duffy interjected, “But none of them have taken it. They can’t take it because they’re not included.”

Murray argued, “They received the email. You’re an employee, you got the same email. And I just think it’s really callous to suggest to controllers these emails saying your work’s not valued. So do you know who sent those emails to air traffic controllers?”

Duffy responded, “So you can talk about the system that we have to send emails out. I think it’s antiquated, old and—”

Murray interrupted, “I just asked who?”

“I don’t know how they would have gotten those emails,” hit back Duffy, a former Fox News host and GOP congressman.

Murray pressed, “You don’t know who sent them? Nobody’s been fired for sending those?”

“That they would have had the wrong email for an air traffic controller versus someone else in the FAA. No, I’m not gonna fire someone over that,” Duffy replied.

In February, Elon Musk’s DOGE targeted the FAA for downsizing as part of its effort to reduce government spending and sent out mass emails offering all employees buyouts to leave their jobs. Duffy insisted at the time that no “critical safety personnel” was let go in the firings, which happened soon after the deadly January crash between a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane in DC.

President Donald Trump had fired all the members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee just days before the tragic accident. The committee is a congressionally mandated body charged with overseeing safety at U.S. airports.