67 people were killed in the collision of an American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter. Before pointing fingers, pause for a moment of shared mourning as a country.
A national tragedy happened Wednesday night when a passenger plane collided with an Army helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport.
Officials say there are no survivors among the 64 people on board the American Airlines flight and the three crew members on the Black Hawk helicopter.
Heartbreaking and shocking are the only words to describe it.
It’s unclear for now what caused the crash, and investigators are on the case. The families of the victims – and the American people – deserve answers.
“Everything was standard in the lead-up to the crash,” Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said at a news conference. “Now, obviously something happened here, but you’ll get more information and more details as this investigation moves forward. We’ll learn what happened.”
Blame Trump because of early hiring freeze? That’s hardly fair.
President Donald Trump has been in office (for the second time) for less than two weeks, but that isn’t stopping pundits and Trump haters from assigning blame to the president.
On his first day, Trump issued a flurry of executive orders, one of which called for a temporary hiring freeze of federal workers. He’s also offered a buyout to federal employees. He’s doing this to fulfill a campaign promise to rightsize the government and reduce the country’s unsustainable $36 trillion debt.
Democrats and other Trump detractors are using these early actions to pin blame on him for the tragic plane crash.
Just days after his inauguration, several Democrats issued a statement warning of potential problems that the hiring freeze could precipitate.
