Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach called out the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for prioritizing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) over passenger safety and employee competence.
During a Feb. 22 appearance on Fox Business’s The Big Money Show, Kobach said that the FAA is proudly “making passenger safety take back a seat to diversity” by prioritizing DEI initiatives. Kobach told Fox Business that he hopes the FAA “will change its hiring practice, go back to what it did before and that is hire, simply based on skill.”
Kobach went on to point out that ignoring merit is particularly dangerous for complex jobs: “I think all of us would probably agree, that whether it’s flying the plane, or the FAA air traffic control guiding the plane into the runway—or for that matter, a doctor performing a complicated surgery—we don’t care what race…
