Transportation Secretary concerned about cost, timeline, DEI mandates

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

This is exactly the folly of ill thought policies like DEI. Making sure contractors are included based on immutable characteristics is not what's important here. What's important is fixing a piece of damaged transportation infrastructure within a reasonable time frame and cost to the taxpayers. Inflating costs or delaying completion in order to ensure the workers have the correct genitalia or skin pigmentation flies in the face of common sense.

"It's my hope that this letter from Secretary Duffy is a good-faith expression of concern about the cost of the bridge and not a retraction of the administration's commitment to the bridge," Representative Olszewski said. "Nothing in the letter suggested that they were planning to pull back their support. It seems to continue to be there, which we welcome."

On Secretary Duffy's concerns about DEI practices in hiring contractors, Olszewski told Hellgren, "I believe we can rebuild this bridge in a responsible way that also includes women and minority contractors."

Will Trump try to pull Key Bridge funding? Transportation Secretary concerned about cost, timeline, DEI mandates

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy expressed concerns about the Key Bridge rebuilding project and has asked for a meeting with Gov. Wes Moore.

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[Lisa558]

I wish we could just hire the best people.

 

[Darkwind]

If you believe in DEI, then knock youself out. Be the follower you are.

However, DEI PROGRAMS should be outlawed from the government.

 

[Oddball]

I wish we could just hire the best people.

wacis

 

[Oddball]

If you believe in DEI, then knock youself out. Be the follower you are.

However, DEI PROGRAMS should be outlawed from the government.

DEI is being used for airline pilots and ATC.

That's not "knock yourself out", that's a direct threat to everyone's safety and very lives.

 

[Edgetho]

I wish we could just hire the best people.

Then how would dimocrap FILTH get their kickbacks?

You need to think these things through

 

[1srelluc]

First remove any mandated union worker and minority contractor requirements that Biden put in place.

 

[Darkwind]

DEI is being used for airline pilots and ATC.

That's not "knock yourself out", that's a direct threat to everyone's safety and very lives.

Reread it and read it for comprehension.

You can believe in DEI. That is a First Amendment issue.

OUTLAWING from the Government is where the safety comes in. If DEI is outlawed in government, then ATC and Pilots will have to be hired on merit.

 

[Oddball]

Reread it and read it for comprehension.

You can believe in DEI. That is a First Amendment issue.

OUTLAWING from the Government is where the safety comes in. If DEI is outlawed in government, then ATC and Pilots will have to be hired on merit.

I read it jut fine....Airlines aren't gubmint agencies, nor are a lot of other private operations like hospitals, with the lives of people in their hands.

 

[Darkwind]

I read it jut fine....Airlines aren't gubmint agencies, nor are a lot of other private operations like hospitals, with the lives of people in their hands.

Airlines are beholden to government regulation, just like ATC. They may be private entities, but they fall under the rubric of public safety. The left won't think so, but hiring on anything but merit is a public safety issue in this regard.

There is absolutely nothing the government can do to private companies in regard to DEI other than make sure they don't get any government contracting or funding.

 

[Oddball]

Airlines are beholden to government regulation, just like ATC. They may be private entities, but they fall under the rubric of public safety. The left won't think so, but hiring on anything but merit is a public safety issue in this regard.

There is absolutely nothing the government can do to private companies in regard to DEI other than make sure they don't get any government contracting or funding.

"Beholden to regulations" doesn't make them a part of the gubmint.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

I wish we could just hire the best people.

The Toy Factory

We're not going to get the best people graduating from the Eweniversity until we replace it with highly paid professional training.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

DEI is being used for airline pilots and ATC.

That's not "knock yourself out", that's a direct threat to everyone's safety and very lives.

Off We Go Into the Wild Blueblood Yonder

So is hiring mediocre wannabes from the limited pool of those who had enough money to pay for pilot training. Like all our other top jobs, those who are forced to buy their jobs will make their passengers pay when they crash.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

First remove any mandated union worker and minority contractor requirements that Biden put in place.

If You're Not a Union Man, You're Not a Man at All. You Are a Manservant.

 

[1srelluc]

If You're Not a Union Man, You're Not a Man at All. You Are a Manservant.

Damn, as a manservant I did pretty well for myself when I look at my net worth.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Damn, as a manservant I did pretty well for myself when I look at my net worth.

No man is an island