General Discussion

It is respectful to not start pointing fingers and trying to lay blame -with no evidence and scant facts about the accident- when the victims and possible survivors haven't even been recovered from the wreckage and water. At the time of the OP, it was not known if there were any survivors.

Furthermore, those of us in and around DC can be especially touchy about respecting the families and victims of plane crashes in the icy Potomac. We've seen the herculean and heartbreaking rescue efforts of this very situation before, live as it happened, and it was traumatic af.

Blaming the current administration for the accident because of a hiring freeze implemented last week is definitely jumping the gun. It sounds like Trump Derangement Syndrome, tbh. The whole "blame them first because they'll just blame us."
I get it, but: time and place, man. Time and place.

What he has done is, indeed, horrible. I hate him and would like nothing more than to blame him and effin Elon for everything that goes wrong. There's a scary amount of things we'll being going through over the next few years that will be directly and obviously their fault. But, air traffic controllers take their job VERY seriously. The same number of people were likely working last night as there were a few weeks ago, during the prior administration. Changes in such a hugely important, controlled and regulated industry don't happen overnight. Or over few weeks, even. Especially when it involves security around DC, in any capacity.

Accident are terrible but they do happen. Wait for the facts, the actual details of went wrong in a tragedy like this one, before laying blame. Let the families of the passengers know if their loved one is even alive before pointing fingers at politicians. That's what is respectful.

Just my 2 cents.