HO HO HO! Trump's Transportation Secretary offers ENCOURAGEMENT to Holiday travelers: "It's only going to get worse"
MAGAs Transport Secretary has offered a frank and dire assessment of Thanksgiving travel carnage ahead of the government shutdown entering its sixth week.
Its only going to get worse, Sean Duffy told CNN Sunday after the Federal Aviation Administration Friday ordered airlines to cut hundreds of flights at 40 of the busiest airports across the country.
Two weeks before Thanksgiving, youre going to see air travel reduced to a trickle, he went on. Youre gonna have people who wanna get home for the holidays, who wanna see their family, who wanna celebrate this great American holiday. Listen, many of them are not gonna be able to get on an airplane.
The cuts come as air traffic controllers continue working without pay amid what is now the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Roughly 750,000 federal workers have been furloughed, with estimated losses to the economy ranging from $7 to $15 billion, or 0.1-2 percent shrinkage in GDP, for each week it has lasted so far.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-transport-secretary-sean-duffy-says-holiday-flights-will-be-reduced-to-a-trickle/