Sean Duffy, secretary of the Department of Transportation, which oversees the FAA, announced in a post on X that SpaceX engineers would be visiting the Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Virginia to take what he positioned as a tour.

Five senators, including both Virginia senators, wrote a letter to U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy sharing their concerns.

The meeting comes after a series of aviation accidents, including one of the deadliest plane crashes in over a decade.

President Donald Trump's administration is continuing its radical effort to cut much of the federal government -- and is being met with dozens of legal challenges. The Department of Government Efficiency is taking aim at agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration,

The Trump administration and Elon Musk are also facing criticism over the firing of hundreds of workers at the FAA, the Federal Aviation Administration. On Monday, a team from Musk’s private SpaceX company visited the FAA’s Air Traffic Control Command Center in Virginia.

The FAA has launched a probe into why flights approaching the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport received erroneous alerts of other aircraft in the area.

Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine joined their colleagues in sending a letter to the Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy. The letter raises concerns about the various aviation incidents over the past month,

The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend.

The visit comes after a union representing FAA workers says hundreds are being laid off.

The FAA is testing Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service. That could raise a possible conflict of interest, experts say.

SpaceX engineers were said to be simply touring the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday. In fact, some were already being onboarded at the agency under a policy designed to increase “employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

Its staff visited Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Virginia Monday, according to Transport Secretary ... Duffy claimed that the FAA staff who were let go “were all probationary” and that none of them were air traffic controllers or critical ...