The lawsuit alleges that under former President Barack Obama, the FAA replaced a skill-based hiring system with a “biographical assessment” aimed at increasing minority representation.

The FAA’s initial misconduct occurred under President Barack Obama. The agency dropped the discriminatory test midway through President Donald Trump’s first term. But President Joe Biden made ...

President Barack Obama in 2010 ordered federal agencies to prioritize hiring more people with disabilities. The Federal Aviation Administration incorporated such efforts into its diversity hiring ...

plus a 2015 Fox Business article and a 2018 segment from former Fox News host Tucker Carlson on FAA hiring practices under Obama. During Trump's first term, the FAA actually announced a pilot ...

At length, he attacked former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden for imposing what he called “a big push to put diversity” that he said weakened the Federal Aviation Administration.

Trump acknowledged that he isn’t sure that efforts to diversify the Federal Aviation Administration ... “I changed the Obama standards from very mediocre at best to extraordinary.

Among those in the president’s crosshairs were Barack Obama, Pete Buttigieg ... and railed against hiring policies within the Federal Aviation Administration that he claims have not been ...

Trump sought to blame his predecessors, presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama, for FAA hiring practices that promoted diversity, equity and inclusion. But Trump did not provide any evidence to ...

On Jan. 29, 2025, a U.S. Army helicopter collided with an American Airlines passenger jet near Washington, D.C. All 60 passengers and four crew members on the plane, as well as three people on the ...

President Donald Trump calls on a reporter to ask a question in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Washington.(Alex Brandon / AP) Hours after a ...