According to data provided by Reuters to Congress, the US Auto Safety Agency is reducing its 25 % employees by more than 25 % of employees under financial programs.
A section of the Department of Transportation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, is shrinking from 772 employees till May 31 under the program. Both the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration are also losing more than 25 % of their staff.
Expressing concerns about the deductions, representative Rick Larson, a senior Democrat of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, raised the question of how the USDOT “can” speed up the project with a damaged workforce and accelerate the pre -safety. “
Overall, the USDOT is losing only more than 4,100 employees, which the Federal Aviation Administration has dropped from 2,137 to about 46,250 to 44,208 to less than 46,250 to 52,862 to 52,862.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Wednesday that the department did not reduce any of any security employees and was actively trying to include air traffic controllers.
USDOT and NHTSA did not immediately comment. It is unclear if the Department of Transportation is still intended to run a holiday in the upper part of the initial departure of retirement.
The NHTSA has a number of ongoing investigations into modern driving relief systems and Tesla, alphabet Vemo and other companies, self -driving vehicles.
On Thursday, consumer advocacy groups urged lawmakers to abandon the proposed deductions in the NHTSA budget, which reduces its works and research accounts by more than 10 million “agency’s rule, implementation measures, and the ability to research and analyze.”
This will also reduce the $ 2021 infrastructure law for $ 78 million in additional funds. The groups said they were particularly concerned that such financing could provide further firing or forced retirement, which has eliminated the NHTSA. “
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