退休达美航空机长的提名自2025年7月起陷入停滞
作者：艾玛·科尔顿
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发布时间：2026年2月12日 美国东部时间下午1:26
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美国总统唐纳德·特朗普提名的美国驻联合国国际民用航空组织（ICAO）大使候选人因数十万美元欠税未在福克斯新闻数字版获得的官方道德文件中披露，正面临更严格的审查。
杰弗里·安德森（Jeffrey Anderson）是退休的达美航空机长和美国海军老兵，于2025年7月被提名为美国驻国际民用航空组织大使。国际民用航空组织是联合国设在加拿大的机构，负责监督国际航空标准，包括安全、导航和环境保护相关问题。
特朗普政府在2025年的一份声明中支持他，称他是“担任该职位的高度合格人选”，并表示“是代表总统‘美国优先’外交政策议程在国际航空界的绝佳选择”——当时他的税务问题和过去支持民主党人已曝光。
该职位需经参议院确认，安德森的提名目前搁置在参议院外交关系委员会。
特朗普提名的联合国航空官员长期以来一直与民主党有资金往来，曾支持尼科尔·黑利
如今，福克斯新闻数字版发现，安德森已签署道德协议和披露表格，但未提及已结清的税务留置权。
根据获得的美国国税局（IRS）联邦税务留置权解除证明，安德森及其妻子在2013-2019年期间有多笔联邦税务留置权，未缴税款总额约42.6万美元。文件显示，这些留置权与“小型企业/自雇人士”税款相关。
美国国税局解释，联邦税务留置权是“政府对未按时缴纳税款者财产的法律主张”。
两份解除证明显示，佐治亚州两个县的留置权直到2025年10月才被解除。一份证明显示2012-2018年的留置权金额为35.479163万美元，于2025年10月15日解除；另一份显示2019年的留置权金额为7.131311万美元，于2025年10月29日解除。
然而，安德森的《公共财务披露报告》（OGE Form 278e）仅在负债部分列出了一笔抵押贷款，未披露任何联邦税务留置权或美国国税局负债。该表格详细列出了资产、过往工作和收入等标准信息。
美国政府伦理办公室（OGE）对OGE Form 278e的指导要求申报人在报告期内任何时候若有超过1万美元的负债都需披露。
根据获得的文件，安德森于2025年8月14日签署了OGE Form 278e。
福克斯新闻数字版于2025年9月21日发现，安德森的OGE Form 278e及另一份提交给国务院法律顾问办公室的道德文件已被录入政府伦理办公室的财务和伦理披露跟踪系统。
福克斯新闻数字版多次联系国务院，询问为何安德森未在OGE 278e的负债部分披露留置权，是否在首次申报后提交了修正的财务披露文件以补充任何美国国税局负债或留置权，以及政府何时首次得知这些留置权。
国际民用航空组织大使在确认后需在国务卿授权下履职。
国务院发言人周三对福克斯数字版表示：“我们支持总统的提名，并期待他获得确认。”
查看政府伦理办公室披露数据库中的其他被提名人信息，发现部分个人在审查过程中修改了道德披露内容。但安德森的档案中未显示对初始披露的公开修正。
公开财务披露是提名审查过程的核心环节。联邦伦理规则通常要求被提名人披露报告期内的重大未偿负债。
参议院确认的大使提名人通常需通过白宫多步骤流程，包括FBI背景调查和联邦伦理审查财务披露，国务院负责整理和处理提名材料后正式提交参议院。
一位前特朗普政府官员告诉福克斯数字版：“每个人都会遇到挫折，这不是问题。问题在于对国会撒谎和误导特朗普总统。杰弗里·安德森拖欠美国国税局42.6万美元以上，多年背负联邦税务留置权，却试图通过隐瞒这些留置权来通过参议院确认。联邦税务留置权不是可选的，也不会奇迹般消失。”
该官员补充说，大多数美国人无法拿出50万美元来“摆平”这样的丑闻，并指出“安德森向反特朗普政客捐款的记录”预示其提名将自行崩溃。
ICAO职位多年空缺
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安德森的提名填补了美国在该职位上长期缺位的空白。该职位上一次由前大使、著名飞行员切斯利·“萨利”·萨伦伯格（Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger）担任，他于2022年卸任。
萨伦伯格在2009年因成功迫降全美航空1549航班而广受赞誉，当时飞机引擎因鸟击失灵，他在哈德逊河上迫降，拯救了155人——这一事件被称为“哈德逊河奇迹”。
自2025年7月以来，安德森的提名一直停滞，根据参议院第31条规则，提名于2026年1月3日退回给总统，特朗普随后几天再次向参议院提交提名。
安德森的提名遭到美国航空飞行员协会（ALPA）的反对。该工会代表美国和加拿大近8万名飞行员，认为他“唯一的资格”是支持提高飞行员强制退休年龄的倡议。
工会反对将强制退休年龄从65岁提高到67岁，称这“将使美国在全球航空领域成为异类，并在飞行员劳资关系以及国际和国内航班运营中造成混乱”。
国际航空规则禁止65岁以上的航空公司飞行员飞行。一些全球航空集团呼吁国际民用航空组织考虑将国际飞行员退休年龄提高到67岁，理由是人员配置压力以及保留资深飞行员将有助于提升航空安全。
安德森还与民主党人和其他经常反对特朗普及其政策的政客有密切财务往来，福克斯新闻数字版此前曾报道。
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一位前特朗普政府官员在2025年8月将安德森描述为“根本不是特朗普共和党人，而是一个潜伏的自由派，在总统人事办公室（PPO）的审查中溜走了”，批评其政治捐款和税务历史。
在2024年竞选周期中，安德森曾向共和党人尼科尔·黑利（Nikki Haley）捐赠小额资金——当时这位前美国驻联合国大使在竞选共和党提名时反对特朗普，在竞选途中指责特朗普“精神失常”，随后退选并支持特朗普成为共和党总统候选人。
根据福克斯新闻数字版此前报道的捐赠文件，这位前飞行员还向2024年试图挑战共和党籍佐治亚州议员玛乔丽·泰勒·格林的民主党对手捐款。安德森对民主党的政治捐款可追溯至多年前，包括2017年向弗吉尼亚州前众议院候选人丹·沃德（Dan Ward）和俄勒冈州前众议员彼得·德法齐奥（Peter DeFazio）等民主党人捐款。
德克萨斯州共和党众议员特洛伊·内尔斯（Troy Nehls）是众议院交通和基础设施航空小组委员会主席，他在2025年8月告诉福克斯数字版，如果安德森获得确认，他将助力美国“开启航空黄金时代”。
内尔斯说：“安德森先生曾是海军飞行员，拥有超过30年的达美航空飞行经验。毫无疑问，他有资格代表美国参加国际民用航空组织会议，他在航空业的第一手经验将对推进总统‘开启航空黄金时代’的使命发挥关键作用。”
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“我完全支持特朗普总统和他的‘美国优先’议程。我已通过白宫全面审查，并感谢总统、众议院航空委员会主席特洛伊·内尔斯和众议院交通与基础设施委员会主席山姆·格雷夫斯等人的认可。我期待在成为下一届国际民用航空组织常驻代表后推进美国利益。”安德森在2025年8月通过LinkedIn直接向福克斯数字版表示，同时称特朗普正“有效推进这一被拜登政府忽视的领域”。
福克斯新闻数字版联系白宫就披露时间线寻求置评，但未收到回复。
福克斯新闻数字版也联系安德森就税务留置权和伦理申报时间线置评，但未收到回复。
Trump UN aviation ambassador nominee Jeffrey Anderson faces tax scrutiny | Fox News
Retired Delta captain’s confirmation has dragged since July 2025
By Emma Colton
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Published February 12, 2026 1:26pm EST
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President Donald Trump’s pick to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (U.N.) office focused on aviation is facing heightened scrutiny for hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes that were not disclosed in official ethics documents obtained by Fox News Digital.
Jeffrey Anderson, a retired Delta Air Lines captain and U.S. Navy veteran, was nominated to serve as the U.S. ambassador to the International Civil Aviation Organization in July 2025. The International Civil Aviation Organization is a U.N. office based in Canada that is charged with overseeing international aviation standards, including issues related to safety, navigation and environmental protection.
The administration has backed him as “highly qualified” for the role and a “great choice to represent the President’s America First foreign policy agenda in the international aviation community,” in a statement to Fox News Digital in 2025 as his tax issues and past support of Democrats came to light.
The role is a Senate-confirmed post, with Anderson’s nomination sitting before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Now, Anderson has signed his ethics agreement and disclosure forms, but mentions of the now-paid off liens are not included, Fox News Digital found.
Fox News Digital obtained Anderson’s IRS Certificates of Release of Federal Tax Lien that show he and his wife had multiple federal tax liens stemming from tax years 2013–2019, with unpaid assessed balances totaling approximately $426,000. The liens were related to “small business/self employed” taxes, according to the documents.
A federal tax lien is “the government’s legal claim against your property when you neglect or fail to pay a tax debt,” according to the IRS.
The liens, filed in two Georgia counties, were not released until October 2025 after payment was fulfilled. One IRS Certificate of Release of Federal Tax Lien shows liens tied to the 2012–2018 tax years totaling $354,791.63 and later released on Oct. 15, 2025, according to the documents obtained by Fox Digital. A second release shows a lien tied to tax year 2019 totaling $71,313.11 and released Oct. 29, 2025.
Anderson’s Public Financial Disclosure Report, called OGE Form 278e, however, only lists a single mortgage in the liabilities section — not any disclosures of federal tax liens or IRS liability, according to the documents obtained by Fox News Digital. The OGE Form 278e does detail boilerplate and detailed information on Anderson’s assets, past employment and income.
The Office of Government Ethics’ guidance for OGE Form 278e instructs filers to report liabilities over $10,000 owed at any time during the reporting period.
Anderson signed the OGE Form on Aug. 14, 2025, according to the document obtained by Fox News Digital.
Anderson’s OGE Form 278e and a separate ethics document sent by Anderson to the State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser were added to the Office of Government Ethics’ system tracking financial and ethics disclosures Sept. 21, 2025, Fox News Digital found.
Fox News Digital repeatedly reached out to the State Department, specifically inquiring why Anderson did not disclose the liens on the liabilities section of the OGE 278e, if he filed an amended financial disclosure to add any IRS liability or lien after the initial filing, and when the administration was first notified of the liens.
The ICAO ambassador operates under the authority of the secretary of state when confirmed.
“We support the president’s nominee and look forward to having him confirmed,” a State Department spokesperson told Fox Digital of Anderson Wednesday.
A review of other nominees listed on the OGE disclosure database shows individuals have amended their ethics disclosures amid the vetting process. Anderson’s file does not reflect any public amendments to his initial disclosures.
Public financial disclosure is a core piece of the nomination vetting process. Federal ethics rules and guidance generally require nominees to disclose major outstanding liabilities during the reporting period.
Nominees for Senate-confirmed ambassador posts typically are cleared through a multistep White House process that can include FBI background checks and federal ethics review of financial disclosures, with the State Department helping compile and process the nomination package before it is formally sent to the Senate.
“Everyone has setbacks. That’s not the problem,” a former Trump official told Fox Digital about the matter. “The problem is lying to Congress and misleading President Trump. Jeffrey Anderson stiffed the IRS for more than $426,000, carried federal tax liens for years, then tried to slip through Senate confirmation by hiding them on a sworn disclosure. Federal tax liens aren’t optional, and they don’t magically disappear.”
The former official added that most “Americans don’t just come up with half a million dollars to make a scandal vanish,” while arguing “Anderson’s record of donating to anti-Trump politicians” tees up a nomination that will collapse on itself.
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ICAO ROLE HAS GONE UNFILLED FOR YEARS
Anderson’s nomination to serve in the office follows years of it sitting dormant of U.S. leadership. The role was last filled by former ambassador, famed pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who stepped down in 2022.
Sullenberger gained widespread applause in 2009, when the US Airways pilot landed Flight 1549 on the Hudson River after a bird strike disabled both engines and saved 155 people — an event known as the “Miracle on the Hudson.”
Anderson’s nomination has been dragging since July 2025, with it returned to the president on Jan. 3, 2026 under Senate Rule XXXI, a technical rule, and Trump resending Anderson’s nomination to the Senate days later.
Anderson’s nomination has received pushback from the Air Line Pilots Association, a union that represents nearly 80,000 pilots across the U.S. and Canada, arguing his “only” qualification was supporting an effort to raise the mandatory pilot retirement age.
The union opposes increasing the mandatory retirement from 65 years of age to age 67, arguing it “would leave the United States as an outlier in the global aviation space and create chaos on pilot labor, and international and domestic flight operations,” the group’s statement in July 2025 read.
International aviation rules prohibit airline pilots older than 65 from flying. Some global airline groups have called on the International Civil Aviation Organization to consider raising the international pilot retirement age to 67, citing staffing pressure and that retaining veteran pilots would only bolster airline safety.
Anderson also has had close financial ties to Democrats and other politicians frequently hostile toward Trump and his policies, Fox News Digital previously reported.
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“Jeffrey Anderson isn’t a Trump Republican at all; he’s a liberal sleeper who slipped through the cracks of PPO (Presidential Personnel Office),” a former Trump official told Fox Digital of Anderson’s political donations and tax history in August 2025.
Anderson made a handful of small-dollar donations to Republican Nikki Haley during the 2024 campaign cycle, when the former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. ran against Trump, whom she slammed as “unhinged” while on the campaign trail before dropping out of the race and endorsing Trump as the GOP nominee for president.
The former pilot also donated to the former Democratic opponent who tried to unseat then-Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in the 2024 cycle, according to donation filings previously reported by Fox News Digital. Anderson’s political donations to Democrats stretch back years, including in 2017 when he donated to Democrats, such as former House candidate Dan Ward in Virginia and former Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon.
Texas Republican Rep. Troy Nehls, who serves as chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation, told Fox Digital in August 2025 that Anderson will help usher in “the Golden Age of aviation” if confirmed.
“Mr. Anderson served as a naval aviator and has more than three decades of experience as a pilot for Delta,” Nehls said in August. “He is, without a doubt, qualified to represent the United States of America at ICAO, where his first-hand experience with the aviation industry will play a crucial role in advancing President Trump’s mission of ushering in the Golden Age of aviation.”
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“I am fully supportive of President Trump and his America First agenda. I have been fully vetted by the White House and appreciate the approval of the President, House Aviation Chair Troy Nehls and House T&I Chair Sam Graves, among others. I look forward to advancing American interests as the next Permanent Representative to ICAO,” Anderson wrote in a direct message on LinkedIn to Fox Digital in August 2025, while adding that Trump is seeking to “move effectively forward in a space negligently left vacant by Biden.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment on the timeline of disclosure but did not receive a reply.
Fox New Digital reached out to Anderson for comment on the timeline of the tax liens and ethics filings but did not receive a reply.
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