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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 6055069" data-attributes="member: 54375">On January 20, the day donald was inaugurated, Federal Aviation Administrator, Michael Whitaker, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-michael-whitaker-quit-on-jan-20-after-elon-musk-told-him-to-resign/" target="_blank">resigned</a>. Then on January 22, donald<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-aviation-safety-tsa-coast-guard_n_67912023e4b039fc12780c73" target="_blank"> fired</a> the head of the Transportation Security Administration (who was first appointed by Trump himself, by the way), as well as every member of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, an institution created by Congress to improve airline safety after the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988.smart<a href="https://prospect.org/topics/ryan-cooper/" target="_blank">More from Ryan Cooper</a>This was unusual. With a few exceptions, like during President Reagan’s vindictive mass firing of unionized air traffic controllers, the FAA has been a relatively uncontroversial agency. Administrators commonly serve out their five-year terms even if the presidency changes hands—President Obama’s FAA chief served into 2018 under Trump. Indeed, ensuring agency stability was one reason Congress made the position longer than a presidential term.But shadow president Elon Musk—who, let me emphasize, is a foreign-born billionaire who has not been elected or appointed to any post—had been <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-michael-whitaker-quit-on-jan-20-after-elon-musk-told-him-to-resign/" target="_blank">demanding</a> Whitaker be sacked for months, because the FAA had been attempting to regulate his company SpaceX.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 6055069, member: 54375"] On January 20, the day donald was inaugurated, Federal Aviation Administrator, Michael Whitaker, [URL='https://www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-michael-whitaker-quit-on-jan-20-after-elon-musk-told-him-to-resign/']resigned[/URL]. Then on January 22, donald[URL='https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-aviation-safety-tsa-coast-guard_n_67912023e4b039fc12780c73'] fired[/URL] the head of the Transportation Security Administration (who was first appointed by Trump himself, by the way), as well as every member of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, an institution created by Congress to improve airline safety after the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988. smart [URL='https://prospect.org/topics/ryan-cooper/'][B][I]More from Ryan Cooper[/I][/B][/URL] This was unusual. With a few exceptions, like during President Reagan’s vindictive mass firing of unionized air traffic controllers, the FAA has been a relatively uncontroversial agency. Administrators commonly serve out their five-year terms even if the presidency changes hands—President Obama’s FAA chief served into 2018 under Trump. Indeed, ensuring agency stability was one reason Congress made the position longer than a presidential term. But shadow president Elon Musk—who, let me emphasize, is a foreign-born billionaire who has not been elected or appointed to any post—had been [URL='https://www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-michael-whitaker-quit-on-jan-20-after-elon-musk-told-him-to-resign/']demanding[/URL] Whitaker be sacked for months, because the FAA had been attempting to regulate his company SpaceX. [/QUOTE]

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