Aviation Workers Demand Shutdown Solution

0:00It's March 28th. This is US News Today, driven by AI tracking America in real time. Congress keeps pushing bills like the Aviation Funding Solvency Act and Keep America Flying Act to make sure air traffic controllers and TSA agents get paid during government shutdowns. These ideas pop up session after session, often with support from both Democrats and Republicans, but they always end up stuck in limbo once the crisis passes. Republicans hit hard though, like the 35-day-1 over the border wall and the record 43-day laps last fall. Air traffic control shortages let the flight cuts at 40-busy airports, security lines dragged on, and workers showed up without paychecks, risking, safety. Workers are fed up, calling it unstable and dishonorable after being promised steady government jobs. Union leaders say their pawns and political games, with many still digging out from dead, facing shifts and questioning if they'll stick around. Airlines, airports, and over 60 groups in the modern skies coalition are begging lawmakers

1:02to pass one of these bipartisan fixes. Just last Friday, on the 42nd day of a Department of Homeland Security shutdown, President Trump signed an emergency order to pay TSA agents. Right away, pressure is mounting from unions and industry bigwigs for a real solution like the Shut Down Fairness Act, but without it, the cycle of delays. And frustrated travelers looks ready to spin again.