The Department of Transportation dismissed all the members of its federal advisory committees en masse in an effort to “reconstitute” them with new members.
The department has more than two dozen active federal advisory committees, which are staffed with stakeholders and subject matter experts who weigh in on a variety of DOT actions. The Associated Press first reported the dismissals and the DOT confirmed them to NOTUS.
A DOT spokesperson told NOTUS that many of the committees “have not held a single meeting in over a year, while others have not produced recommendations or advisory reports. Worse, some committees have lost sight of the mission, and have been overrun with individuals’ whose sole focus is their radical DEI and climate agenda.”