This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Joe Biden's presidential legacy undoubtedly will include his wild and extreme advocacy for abortion for all.
And his insistence on transgenderism, including growth-stunting chemicals and body-mutilating surgeries even for children.
But another component that has appeared is the threat to the safety of American air travelers left behind by his allegiance to the DEI ideology.
That, "diversity, equity and inclusion," belief insists that people must be hired based on their race, sex, sexual orientation, even minority status, rather than their qualifications for the actual job.
In some positions that may not result in much of a threat, but in the position of air traffic controller, those who manage hundreds, even thousands, of aircraft including jetliners carrying hundreds of people each to keep them safe, it's a big deal.
Now Fox News is reporting the chief of the House Aviation Safety Caucus charges Joe Biden helped fuel a current threat in the industry because of his choice "to fund progressive diversity initiatives instead of modernizing the aging system."
Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-N.Y., explained in the report the Biden administration's key project, an infrastructure bill, was a "missed opportunities" to fund a revamp of the ATC system.
"That was before I came to Congress, but, you know, you had just mistaken priorities in that, all this DEI policy, DEI staffing, that all got baked into the cake," Langworth explained. "They could have taken that money and spent it on real modernization of what is critical infrastructure in this country."
There recently have been several crashes in the airline industry. Dozens of lives have been lost. One happened in Washington where a helicopter was at the wrong altitude and whose pilot on a training outing declined to follow ATC instructions to change course urgently, resulting in a fiery collision with a jetliner approaching a runway.
Just this week there was an outage at Newark Liberty International Airport that apparently blacked out air traffic control screens for a time.
The report said, "Langworthy clarified that he does not believe DEI policies 'necessarily' directly hit ATC. 'It's what they spent the money [on]. I mean, you know, there's infrastructure projects, ones in my backyard, where they want to bury and tunnel over our main artery in the town because it's going to reunite a community somehow,' he said."
Democrats continue to blame the administration of President Donald Trump for the condition of the ATC industry, which was under Biden's control for years, and under Trump's direction for just the last few weeks.
Langworthy continued, "Aviation is infrastructure. It's transportation. It should have been spent then. Instead, they did all this social engineering with money and didn't focus on what has been a glaring problem for the federal government for many years — modernizing our aviation infrastructure."
Langworthy said, "We should be promoting this to young people that want to look at career service in the government. And it comes with a very competitive salary. But it's a tough job with a lot of hours. And you know, there's always gonna be stress involved, but we have to prioritize it and not just take it for granted."
While federal transportation officials under Trump have confirmed plans to hire thousands of additional controllers, aviation expert Darin Gaub, a former Blackhawk helicopter pilot, confirms he knows qualified controllers who were refused jobs under the Biden administration because of the DEI agenda he had.
