Flight Delays Could Force Parties to End Shutdown

“The shutdown stalemate is showing signs of provoking one of the most powerful forces in the federal bureaucracy: an army of overworked, currently unpaid air traffic controllers,” Politico reports.

“A string of staffing shortages in airport control towers this week caused hourslong delays for travelers from California to Tennessee, demonstrating the outsize influence of a more than 13,000-person-strong workforce whose pay stopped when the government shut down.”