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Related: About this forumFlight delays spread to major airports across the country - CNN
The Federal Aviation Administration is again reporting short staffing at air traffic control operations as the government shutdown enters its eighth day.
CNN aviation correspondent Pete Muntean reports from Reagan National Airport in Virginia, and CNN's Audie Cornish speaks with Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI), who serves on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
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Flight delays spread to major airports across the country - CNN (Original Post)
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progressoid
(52,089 posts)1. Once it starts affecting big business
and regular peoples addiction to get to their sports games etc, then it's going to be hard for the entertainment news to avoid pointing the finger at the white house and republican congress.
IronLionZion
(50,074 posts)2. Tariffs and trade war impact big business
I would hope enough of them have been lobbying the white house. The travel/tourism industry has been getting hammered by this administration for a while now.
progressoid
(52,089 posts)3. One of my clients was a small hotel/resort chain.
They rely on foreign workers and Canadian vacationers.
I would bet all the money they paid me, that most of the upper management of that company voted for trump (I have met a lot of them). I wonder what sort of convoluted "reasoning" they've come up with to justify what's happening.