For context, this is the union for Air Traffic Safety Specialists for the FAA. It appears several hundred of them were let go late last week.
Update: Airway Transportation Systems Specialists, got the acronym wrong. They are technicians who maintain systems across the air traffic control system and airports.
Safety is not a concern. Nothing is a concern. The administration knows that the system can coast on inertia for a few years before total implosion. Then it is someone else's problem.
Likely by then malicious loyalists will be installed and the billionaire class will have solidified oligarchy so there will be no possibility of consequence anyway.
Update: Airway Transportation Systems Specialists, got the acronym wrong. They are technicians who maintain systems across the air traffic control system and airports.