Senate Republicans are shying away from backing President Trump’s recent comments suggesting that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) could have been a factor in the recent midair collision near the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
The GOP has entered uncharted waters with its new Trumped-up platform and Reagan Republicans like Johnson are trying to reconcile that. It won't work.
Cruz has a key role in congressional oversight of the Wednesday night accident as chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, which has jurisdiction over aviation safety.
Trump appeared to resume the role of blamer-in-chief in the aftermath of Thursday's fatal plane crash, surveying the tragedy as just another American citizen asking questions, rather than as the leader of a nation dealing with its first commercial air disaster in 15 years.
Democrats previously hit out at the president's federal hiring freeze for hindering the "number one safety issue" in aviation.
Donald Trump appeared to place blame on DEI initiatives at the Federal Aviation Administration while speaking on the tragic plane crash in Washington, D.C.
It was a good thing Ronald Reagan didn’t win the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 1976. It’s also a good thing Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020. It’s strange to say, but both of their losses turned out for the better — for themselves and, so far anyway, for our country and the world.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin says the plane from Wichita, Kansas appeared to be on a "normal approach" before the collision with a military helicopter near Washington Reagan National Airport that killed
U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, appointed by former President Ronald Reagan, signed the temporary restraining order on Thursday to block Trump’s action. Coughenour’s decision just days after a number of states, including New Jersey, sued the Trump administration over the move.
The orders came hours after Trump addressed the anti-abortion March for Life via video and largely reemphasize GOP abortion policies.
He must pursue a variety of spending cuts that will clearly serve the interests of the American public as a whole, and not just his supporters.
It was Trump's first press conference after a plane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army helicopter.