President Trump issued an ultimatum to federal employees, demanding their return to in-office work by February 6th or face termination. This move echoes Ronald Reagan's 1981 stance against striking air traffic controllers. Trump aims to reshape the federal bureaucracy, focusing on eliminating DEI initiatives and prioritizing competence.
Except Trump was trying to remind federal employees who is the boss much more broadly than Reagan was as he stared down an illegal strike.
Trump has made getting his arms around the federal bureaucracy as the executive branch’s duly elected leader a top priority of his second term. He has moved quickly and decisively since returning to office, trying to root out diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, progressive gender ideology, and federal grants to nongovernment organizations he deems hostile to his agenda.
When Reagan followed through on his threat to fire the illegally striking federal air traffic controllers, it got the attention of public- and private-sector unions alike, as well as others who may have doubted him at home and abroad. But if he had buckled — or worse, been unable to safely keep planes in the sky — it would have been a political, and possibly human, catastrophe.
The Reagan Airport collision put additional pressure on Trump to deal with airway safety specifically. In both a White House press conference and a subsequent memorandum, Trump blamed “problematic and likely illegal decisions during the Obama and Biden Administrations that minimized merit and competence in the Federal Aviation Administration .”
TRUMP FEDERAL EMPLOYEES REAGAN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS BUREAUCRACY
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