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A team from Elon Musk’s SpaceX
is reworking the systems at the Air Traffic Control Command Center in Virginia Monday
in the wake of last month’s deadly air disaster in Washington, DC.

The news comes after CNN reportedthat the Federal Aviation Administration fired hundreds of probationary employees who maintain critical air traffic control infrastructure.
The exact number of workers losing their jobs is unknown,
but the union representing them said it was in the “hundreds.”

The Trump administration is trying to eliminate thousands of federal employees as it works with Congressional Republicans on a massive tax cutting bill that is said to favor mostly corporations and the wealthy

Musk’s status as a major government contractor
— mostly through his company SpaceX
— represents a massive conflict of interest that both he and Donald Trump have repeatedly attempted to downplay.
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