Due to government paralysis, disasters threaten American air transport within a week
US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned that Philadelphia Tuesday: "If you extend the crisis a week from today, Democrats, you will see chaos and many flight delays"
He added: "You will see many cancellations, and we may close certain parts of the airspace, simply because we cannot manage them due to the lack of air traffic controllers."
While the dispute in Congress over health care spending in the budget led to a government shutdown that became the longest in history, Republicans led by President Donald Trump and the opposition represented by the Democratic Party are facing increasing pressure to end a crisis that has paralyzed public services.
60,000 observers
More than 60,000 air traffic controllers and employees of the Transportation Security Administration are working without pay due to the government shutdown, and the White House has previously warned that their absence from work has increased. Leading to chaos in check-in queues.
Airport workers claiming illness rather than working without being paid, which led to major delays, was a major factor in Trump ending the 2019 shutdown, which was the longest, lasting 35 days.
At midnight on Tuesday, the current shutdown officially enters its 36th day, surpassing the previous record set during Trump’s first term.
The Senate rejected it on Tuesday. For the fourteenth time in 5 weeks, approval was given to reopen government institutions.
Trump refuses to negotiate
Democrats stressed that the only way to restart the government is negotiations led by Trump over their demands to extend subsidies that make health insurance accessible to millions of Americans, which is the main point of contention in the confrontation.
But Trump insisted that he will not negotiate with Democrats until the shutdown ends.
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