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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Talks Newark Airport Delays
2025/5/6
Bloomberg Talks
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Chuck Schumer
我不会否认联邦航空管理局（FAA）关于空域安全的声明，但我们必须谨慎。安全事件往往防不胜防，正如我们在DCA（华盛顿国家机场）所经历的那样。关键问题在于，他们对自身管理方式存在诸多疑问。首先，在Doge（此处指代政府效率部门）领导下解雇大量员工削弱了FAA的能力。其次，许多关心航空安全和飞行安全的资深人士由于对新任领导层的能力表示担忧而辞职。FAA增加了13个城市的塔台人员奖金以吸引和留住人才，但费城、纽约和华盛顿却不在此列。这在我看来是荒谬的。因此，还有许多问题有待解答。一句话形容本届政府，那就是混乱。机场是最不应该出现混乱的地方之一，然而纽瓦克机场的情况正在全国蔓延。我们从FAA内部员工那里得到的所有报告都表明，这些裁员造成了损害，而且这些裁员毫无道理可言。他们只是为了裁员而裁员，这非常糟糕。我们与塔台的工作人员进行了交谈。我们要求他们提供削减医疗补助的具体浪费案例，但他们要么拿不出证据，要么只是提供一些无法证实的个例。我们知道他们想要削减医疗补助，并非因为浪费，而是为了一个目的：给这个国家最富有的人减税。上帝保佑那些赚了很多钱的人，但他们不需要减税，尤其是在削减医疗补助的情况下，这将导致大规模裁员、医疗保健水平下降以及医院和养老院的关闭。几周前，我和卫生部门领导一起去了斯塔顿岛（一个共和党地区）。他们估计，这些削减将导致1.8万人失业，这将使斯塔顿岛的整个经济陷入衰退。他们找借口是因为他们只想削减预算，他们既没有提供具体的证据，也没有提出具体的解决方案来解决浪费问题。人们在辛苦工作一周后回到家，却在网上看到自己被解雇了，甚至没有去办公室上班的机会。这些人将毕生精力奉献给了帮助他人，他们甚至没有得到任何被解雇的解释，因为Doge没有解释，他们只想削减。当然，我们党内也有人表示需要对支出进行改革。我会建议在哪些方面进行削减呢？首先，没有人反对削减浪费，但你必须拿出证据。你不能在没有给出任何解释或证据的情况下就告诉别人他们是浪费的一部分。当然，预算中肯定有一些地方可以削减，但你必须谨慎，你必须使用手术刀，而不是电锯。当埃隆·马斯克笑着说他正在用电锯来治理政府时，难道他没有意识到他正在伤害数百万人吗？
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Chuck Schumer: 'First, the firing of so many employees under Doge has weakened the FAA. Second, a good number of top-level people who are concerned with air safety and flight safety have left out of exasperation because they think the people who have been put in charge don't know what they're doing.'
Chuck Schumer: 'The FAA increased bonuses to attract more people in the towers and keep them in the towers for 13 cities, but not Philadelphia, New York or Washington. That seems to me to be ridiculous. So there are so many questions that have not been answered yet. And, you know, one word that describes this administration is chaos. There's no place worse to have chaos, very few places, than an airport. Yet that's what's happening at Newark, and it's spreading around the country.'
Chuck Schumer: 'All the reports we get from people who work there is the cuts have hurt and there is no rhyme or reason to them. They're just cutting for cutting sake and it's very bad. We talked to people who are in the towers.'
Chuck Schumer: 'Yeah, we ask them, give us specific examples of waste when they're cutting Medicaid. And they fail to come up with them or have one anecdotal thing that can't even be proven. We know that they want to slash Medicaid, not because of waste, but for one reason. And that is to give tax breaks to the wealthiest people in this country. You know, God bless the people who made a lot of money, but they don't need a tax break. Certainly when you're cutting Medicaid, which is going to cause huge layoffs,'
Chuck Schumer: 'I was on Staten Island, a Republican area, a few weeks ago with the health leaders. And they estimate that there would be 18,000 people who would lose their jobs under these cuts. That would send that whole economy of Staten Island into a recession. So they use excuses because they just want to slash the budget.'
Chuck Schumer: 'People show up Friday night at home after a hard week of work, and online is you're fired, don't show up at the office. These people have dedicated their lives to helping people, and they're not even given an explanation of why they're fired because Doge doesn't have one. They just want to slash.'
Chuck Schumer: 'Well, look, first, no one's against cutting waste, but you've got to document it. You just don't tell somebody they're part of waste without giving them any explanation, any evidence. But there are obviously places that can be cut throughout the budget. But you've got to be careful. You've got to use a scalpel, not a chainsaw. You know, when Elon Musk gets there smiling that he's using a chainsaw to government, doesn't he realize he's hurting millions of people?'
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