Welcome to The Logoff: The FAA has ordered flight cancellations at airports around the country, starting today — and while the impacts aren’t too dramatic yet, the cuts will get more stringent soon.

What happened? Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says that because of the government shutdown’s strain on air traffic controllers, who have been going without pay, he will start restricting flights at airports.

On Thursday, he released an order doing just that. At 40 highly trafficked airports, carriers must reduce 4 percent of their operations today — increasing to 10 percent by next Friday.

Is this political? Many interpreted Duffy’s action as an attempt to make more people feel the pain of the shutdown, so as to pressure Democrats into agreeing to end it.

It is, however, true that air

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