On Sunday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy confronted the question of whether Elon Musk tried to fire air traffic controllers.
The New York Times reported back in March that there was a clash in which Duffy vented about staffers from Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort trying to lay off air traffic controllers at a time when the Transportation Department was dealing with multiple plane crashes. Musk reportedly denied the claim.
“Did Elon Musk ask you to cut air traffic controllers directly?” NBC’s Kristen Welker asked Duffy during a “Meet The Press” interview.
“So, listen, we were having a conversation about, ‘Who do we preserve?’ And, again, I wanted in those probationary employees to preserve air traffic controllers,” Duffy said. “We went back and forth, and Elon agreed, the president agreed. Of course you want to keep air traffic…
