Rep. Jasmine Crockett Brags About How She Snuck in New FAA Funding for More Black & Hispanic Pilots

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CROCKETT: "I think that I’ve been somewhat effective. We also were able to get monumental legislation into the FAA Reauthorization Act that really flew under the radar, thank God, but this was funding to make sure that hopefully we can increase the number of African Americans and Hispanics that are entering aviation, which can be very expensive, but can obviously be very lucrative. And so we set up a situation where basically there will be full rides for those attending land-grant HBCUs, as well as HSIs, to go into aviation. In this crazy anti-DEI environment, we were able to get that done because we were [inaudible] that mattered. So I do want people to know that we are working. This is just one of those apparitions."