Just hours after President Trump blamed diversity initiatives at the Federal Aviation Administration for the deadly plane crash above the Potomac River, FAA employees, including air traffic controllers, received an email asking them to quit their jobs, according to a report.&nbsp;



The email, which was sent out to hundreds of thousands of federal employees as part of Mr. Trump’s push to remove many civil servants from their positions arrived in their email boxes at 8:30 p.m. – 24 hours after an Army Blackhawk helicopter crashed into an American Airlines passenger jet making its descent into Reagan National Airport at Washington, DC.



“We encourage you to find a job in the private sector as soon as you would like to do so,” reads the e-mail from the Office of Personnel Management, according to a report by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/us/politics/federal-workers-opm.html">the New York Times.</a> “The way to greater American prosperity is encouraging people to move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector.”



The timing of the email comes as Mr. Trump has placed scrutiny on the FAA and DEI hiring initiatives put in place at the agency as a possible cause for the deadly crash, killing 67, over Washington on Wednesday evening.



In his first press conference from the White House briefing room since winning a second term, the president cast blame on diversity programs and previous Democratic administrations.



“The FAA is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website,” Mr. Trump said. “They have to be talented, naturally talented geniuses. You can’t have regular people doing their job.” Mr. Trump offered no evidence to back up his claims about DEI being responsible for the tragedy.&nbsp;



“How can you come to the conclusion right now that diversity had something to do with this crash,” a reporter in the briefing room asked of Mr. Trump.



“Because I have common sense, okay,” the president replied.



On Friday while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office the president was asked if he had any concerns that his comments would interfere with the investigation into the crash. “No, I think they’ll do an investigation. It’ll probably come out the way I said it. I’d like to put it up front,” he said.



The email letter, which was formatted as a “frequently asked questions” message, says employees can immediately get a second job or head to their “dream destination” for a vacation while living off a severance package.



The “FAQ” email was a follow up to a previous email sent to federal staffers at the FAA and multiple federal agencies that offered a buyout of about eight months pay if they agreed to leave their positions by February 6.



Other agencies whose employees received the buyout offers from OPM include the United States Department of Agriculture, The Department of Veterans Affairs, the Environmental Protection Agency, and The Department of Justice. A total of 2 million federal employees have received the series of emails.

The air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on January 31, 2025, near the wreckage of a mid-air collision between a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet in the Potomac River. 

After Crash, Trump Administration Tells FAA Staffers To Quit and Enjoy ‘Dream Destination’ Vacation

The email, sent to numerous federal agencies, is delivered 24 hours after the deadly plane crash at Washington, D.C.

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