On Tuesday’s edition of CNN’s Inside Politics, aviation correspondent Pete Muntean told host Dana Bash that it appeared the Delta Airlines flight that crashed in Toronto on Monday did so due to a landing gear malfunction. He also noted how there is no common thread linking it with other recent plane crashes, but that didn’t stop Bash and her assembled panel from noticing “this happening against the backdrop of massive cuts across the federal government, including at the FAA.” Additionally, as CNN ignored its own aviation expert, it wondered if voters would blame Donald Trump and Elon Musk for firing aviation experts at the FAA amid multiple plane crash stories.
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Next, Politico White House and foreign policy correspondent Eli Stokols recalled how some Democrats have privately told him, “'Look, could the Department of Education be shrunk down? Has there been some bureaucracy creep over the years? Yes. But it's the way that they're going about doing it, and it's empowering Elon Musk and a bunch of 20-something tech bros to go in and sort of, before they even know what's what, just slashing systems.’”
He then declared, “It's when that is the story on one hand. And then there are other things playing out. You go to the store, there's no eggs in the fridge. You know, you see planes crashing left and right… You know, at some point people may connect the dots, and they may come to blame this administration, this government, if they have just bulldozed their way through government, taken out a lot of expertise because people don't really know what government does or is until it's doing something for them or until it's not there.”
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