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On Day 1 of flight cuts, Duffy teases even bigger impact

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday that flight reductions could go as high as 20 percent if the government shutdown drags on.

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began reducing flights by 10 percent on Friday due to air traffic controller staffing shortages amid the federal funding lapse.

“If this continues, and I have more controllers who decide they can’t come to work, can’t control the airspace, but instead have to take a second job — with that, you might see 10 percent would have been a good number, because we might go to 15 percent or 20 percent,” Duffy said at a Breitbart News event in Washington, D.C.

Duffy clarified to The Hill after the event that he was speaking theoretical

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