An open letter to the U.S. Congress

Fund and fix TSA & Air Traffic Control. No funds for ICE

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Please: --Fix & Fund TSA. --Ensure funding for FAA air traffic controllers. --Defund ICE. I'm appalled by the disregard for safety shown by the GOP/Trump refusal to advance funding for TSA, FEMA & the Coast Guard--all because a rash and tyrannical president wants a voter suppression bill and his Gestapo, ICE. Find your guts: overturn his veto. We have lost air traffic controllers in every Government shut down-- even while members of Congress kept taking their pay, TSA and Air Traffic controllers were supposed to work without pay. We are now 3,000 air traffic controllers short. You are surely aware that the government spent $220 million on add that featured Kristi Noem. That sum --Kristi Noem's ad budget-- could have paid for the salaries of 4000-5000 TSA workers for an ENTIRE year. How is this spending on ICE & Noem's ads acceptable? (Recall that those ads were made by a non competitive corrupt pal contract.) This week, there was only a single controller on duty when the LaGuardia crash of a fire truck and plane occurred. We know that part of project 2025's goals included eliminating TSA and replacing it with private contractors. Please: introduce legislation to carve out funding, or ensure advance funding, for Air traffic controllers and TSA. Air traffic staff are essential experts. Allowing their numbers to fall so that safe staffing levels cannot be maintained is unacceptable. It's also unacceptable for ICE agents to be loafing around airports. What the hell are they doing there? Kidnapping people? Loafing and eating? Their inappropriate deployment is a trial run for sending them everywhere, including to the polls. Push back now. Please reply to let me know how you plan to address the issues raised in this letter.

▶ Created on March 24 by Mary

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