Vice President JD Vance is not cowering from President Donald Trump’s case that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives have caused a safety issue.

It comes on the heels of two tragic airline disasters last week and after President Trump shredded DEI initiatives in federal agencies.

The vice president spoke with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday when he supported the president’s comments.

“Our hearts go out to everybody who was affected by it,” the vice president said.

“I’ve actually made a couple of phone calls to the relatives of the deceased, to the people who lost their lives. And it’s just incredibly heartbreaking,” he added before he started speaking about DEI.

“But I do think that we also have to do a better job at the policy so that we make sure that aviation is as safe as it possibly can. Now, we haven’t had an aviation accident like this in about 15, 20 years. We want to make sure that we try to never have an aviation accident like this again, or at least make them as minimal as possible. And that does, I think, mean that we have to talk about the policies now. Here’s the specific way in which I think the policies of the last administration and the Obama administration contributed to where we are,” Vance continued.

“We have a massive shortage of air traffic controllers. And in fact, there have been a number of lawsuits from people who would like to become air traffic controllers against the Obama and Biden administrations, who basically said, we were told, not even to apply because of the color of our skin, because they were white people who wanted to be air traffic controllers. And under the regime of the Biden administration, they weren’t welcome,” said Vance.

“Well, what does that mean? Number one, it means that we don’t have the best and the brightest sometimes in these positions. But even more importantly than that, even when we do get really good people, they’re going to be way overstressed because they’re working long hours because air traffic controllers are short-staffed,” he noted.