FAA Academy in Oklahoma struggled to fill classrooms due to DEI quotas, Sen. Mullin says

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., told "Fox News Live" Saturday that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Academy successful Oklahoma has struggled to capable classrooms owed to DEI quotas. 

"Where the FAA aerial postulation controllers get trained is close present wrong of Oklahoma, successful Oklahoma City," Mullin said. "That's their grooming hub and I volition archer you we were having a hard clip filling the classes due to the fact that of DEI." 

Flight information has go a taxable of statement this week aft an American Airlines level and an Army chopper collided extracurricular Reagan National Airport connected Wednesday. Two days aboriginal connected Friday, a aesculapian pitchy crashed connected a thoroughfare adjacent the Roosevelt Mall successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., told "Fox News Live" that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Academy successful Oklahoma struggled owed to DEI quotas.  (Fox News)

Mullin argued that DEI whitethorn person played a relation successful the deficiency of information preparedness, particularly pursuing the clang extracurricular Reagan National Airport. He said that focusing connected hiring "the champion and brightest individuals" is simply a acold much dependable strategy than focusing connected "diversity, equity and inclusion" policies. 

At the FAA academy successful Oklahoma City, DEI policies resulted successful classes not being utilized to capableness to fulfill DEI quotas, Mullin said. 

"Instead of these classes being 100% full, we were astatine 80% oregon 70%, and it wasn't from the deficiency of individuals applying for it but for each people had a ratio that they had to person connected it," the legislator said. 

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Mullin praised President Donald Trump for taking a beardown stance against DEI upon taking office.  (Trump campaign)

Mullin praised President Donald Trump for taking a beardown stance against DEI upon taking office. 

"President Trump is perfectly correct," Mullin said. "When you're not hiring radical based connected merit and expertise; you're hiring them based connected diversity, equity and inclusion, past that has a immense occupation moving guardant for us." 

The FAA did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital. 

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