Payment of lavish executive bonuses when Amtrak services and revenues remain below prepandemic levels, and financial losses appear permanent, seem inappropriate, wasteful and disrespectful to Amtrak's nonexecutive frontline employees and taxpayers.
Crawford echoed Graves' concerns about Amtrak's executive bonuses during financial struggles.
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