[bko]

> this seems to be exacerbated by government cuts

What government cuts? 2025 FAA air traffic budget was up around 7% from 2025

https://enotrans.org/article/senate-bill-oks-27-billion-faa-...

[sophacles]

Notably 2025 was also the year that Elon started firing people and shutting down things that were in the budget, as well as several shutdowns.

[rglover]

From the article:

> The crash has raised fears that operations at US airports are under extreme stress. Airports have been dealing with a shortage of air traffic controllers, exacerbated by brutal federal government personnel cuts by Donald Trump’s administration at the start of his second presidency.

Not my opinion, just reading from there.

[bko]

So where there budget cuts or not? That was the claim. I have yet to find anything that suggests there were budget cuts, just vague mentions of "brutal federal government personnel cuts".

I'm just looking for: budget was X in <2026 and in 2026 it is Y, where X > Y

[ridgeguy]

Analyze staffing, not budget. That gets more directly at workload.

[rglover]

You said budget cuts, not me.