WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is warning even more flights could be cut if the situation surrounding the government shutdown and air traffic controllers worsens.

During the first day of airlines phasing in hundreds of flight cuts at some of the country's busiest airports, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told Fox News those cuts could go up to 20% if the shutdown continues.

"Most of the controllers can navigate missing one paycheck, virtually none of them can navigate missing two paychecks," Duffy said. "So if this shutdown doesn't end relatively soon, the consequence of that is going to be more controllers don't come to work, and then we're going to have to continue to assess the pressure in the airspace and make decisions that may, again, move us from 10% to 15%, maybe

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