O’Hare and Midway international airports have joined a growing list of airports refusing to play a video from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that accuses Democrats of causing the ongoing government shutdown and its impacts on flight operations.

Mayor Brandon Johnson, in a statement issued Tuesday afternoon, said he instructed the Chicago Department of Aviation to decline to play the video.

“The video shows DHS Secretary Kristi Noem making political assertions about the ongoing government shutdown,” Johnson said in the statement. “Our airports are for Chicagoans and visitors to travel safely to and from our city; they are not for the Trump administration to spread propaganda using taxpayer resources.”

In its own statement earlier Tuesday, the Chicago Department of

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