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White House Says No Shutdown-Related Layoffs Yet
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Trump Official Issues Air Travel Safety Warning as Government Shutdown Causes Major Flight Delays
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has warned that air traffic controllers are feeling increasing pressure at work amid the government shutdown for which Republicans and Democrats are both holding each other responsible.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has eviscerated her own party amid the government shutdown in an X post blasting GOP leadership for playing politics with the lives of America’s poorest families.
The conservative firebrand called it “shameful, disgusting, and traitorous” that the system is set up to “screw the American people.”
The biggest impact of the shutdown so far has been the constant rumors about potential furloughs and layoffs, uncertainty about who is still working, fragmented coordination between agencies and the inability to perform certain tasks with some workers gone, according to three workers from different agencies who spoke with the Sun-Times.
National Air Traffic Controllers Association tells its members that failing to report to work could cost them their job.
Several states are betting it makes more financial sense to dip into their coffers to keep tourist dollars flowing during the funding standoff in Washington.
Hundreds of thousands of U.S. federal workers have been ordered not to report to work, while others have been told to stay on the job during the U.S. government shutdown, which started o 1.
The U.S. government shutdown could raise a caution flag for private companies considering a move to the public market for investors.