Trump Admin Emails Air Traffic Controllers: Quit Your Jobs

Government personnel received a strange request from the Trump administration in their inboxes just before 8:30 p.m. Thursday. It urged federal workers to quit their “lower productivity jobs” and seek employment in the private sector. The mass email urged employees—including the air traffic controllers who work for the Federal Aviation Administration (F.A.A.)—to quit less than 24 hours after the plane crash in Washington D.C., which killed 67 people and was suspected to have been caused by air t