Trump fires heads of TSA, Coast Guard and guts key aviation safety advisory committee

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Trump fires heads of TSA, Coast Guard and guts key aviation safety advisory committee

By JOSH FUNK
Updated 6:04 PM EST, January 21, 2025

President Donald Trump moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security Tuesday, firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up and eliminated all the members of a key aviation security advisory group.

Trump’s immigration policy changes drew the most attention at Homeland Security, but he is also making changes at the rest of the massive agency.

Members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee received a memo Tuesday saying that the department is eliminating the membership of all advisory committees as part of a “commitment to eliminating the misuse of resources and ensuring that DHS activities prioritize our national security.”

The aviation security committee, which was mandated by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, will technically continue to exist but it won’t have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports. Before Tuesday, the group included representatives of all the key groups in the industry — including the airlines and major unions — as well as members of a group associated with the victims of the PanAm 103 bombing. The vast majority of the group’s recommendations were adopted over the years.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/coast-guard-homeland-security-priorities-committees-trump-tsa-d3e4398c8871ada8d0590859442e092c

[Joinfortmill]

1. Scary

[Irish_Dem]

2. Cutting back on aviation security while Putin is planting bombs in planes headed to North America?

[Blues Heron]

3. think ill drive...

[montanacowboy]

4. Wait for the plane

crashes to start, JHC

[yellow dahlia]

5. Who's feeding him these ideas?

He didn't think of targeting all of these agencies on his own.

And what is their objective to get rid of security in the air and on the water?

[MadameButterfly]

6. Putin

I can't think of another reason. He can't really think is a partisan issue. Unless someone has a motive to convince him otherwise.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. What exactly does this mean, right now?

Is he suspending plane security as of this moment?

[Eugene]

9. Short term, nobody's minding the store. Longer term, it's parts of a larger purge of experts from government.

Advisory panels are being gutted government-wide.
Expect contractors, industry lobbyists, Dump cronies
and the DOGE Bros to replace them.

Kakistocracy? Idiocracy? Take your pick.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. If he is making us ripe for attack, then there will victims of his decision.

I don't think he'll get to kill many of us before the public will rise and demand his removal.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Think air safety's bad now?

You ain't seen nothing yet/