“The Trump administration is exploring ways to pay air traffic controllers while the federal government is shut down,” Politico reports.
“It’s part of the Trump administration’s effort to control the most visible or politically fraught impacts of the shutdown, which is now entering its third week. Though so far flight delays due to staffing problems at control towers have been sporadic and isolated, a rash of illnesses in the right place at the right time could send delays across the nation soaring and ramp up political pressure on politicians to act.”
