Vice President Vance predicted Thursday that holiday air travel will be a “disaster” if the government shutdown does not end.

“It could be a disaster,” Vance told reporters following a roundtable at the White House on how the shutdown is impacting airline travel.

“At that point, you’re talking about people having missed three paychecks. They’ve missed four paychecks. How many of them are not going to show up for work?” he continued. “You take the TSA [Transportation Security Administration] lines that are already too long, even right now, and say half of those people don’t show up for work. Not because they’re not hard workers or good people but because they’ve got to find a different job to feed their families.”

“What happens when the security lines are not an hour long but they’re fou

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