Sean Duffy

Are you dressing with respect?

Now we can refocus our efforts on surging controller hiring and building the brand-new, state of the art air traffic control system the American people deserve

Controllers have returned to their posts and normal operations can resume

Air traffic controllers will get 70% of their back pay within 24 to 48 hours of the reopening.

If the FAA safety team determines the trend lines are moving in the right direction, we’ll put forward a path to resume normal operations.

Depending on how many we have, they should come to the White House and he should present them with their checks.

After weeks of claiming they did nothing wrong, Gavin Newsom and California have been caught red-handed. Now that we’ve exposed their lies, 17,000 illegally issued trucking licenses are being revoked.

So the House has to do its work. And by the way, I am very hopeful.

If the government doesn't open, it is going to radically slow down.

However, today has been a much better day. A lot more air traffic controllers are coming in.

Saturday, Sunday, Monday -- very rough travel days, significant cancellations and significant delays.

You’re going to see air travel be reduced to a trickle

The percentage of flights canceled could rise as high as 20% in the coming weeks

If we could deploy them, and I don’t know that we can, we got to see what air spaces they worked in, but he will step in and try to provide some relief in the skies

And I'm doing what I can in a mess that Democrats have put in my lap.

This is not political, this is strictly safety

It's only going to get worse

I have done all I can to minimize disruption in the airspace. I'm trying to get people where they want to go and get them there safely

You know, we have to take unprecedented action because we're in an unprecedented situation with the shutdown

If people want to question us, I would throw it back at them: open up the government

That pressure on the controllers were giving us numbers that were not troubling, but were concerning. So my job is to be preemptive

As that data came in we decided to make the decisions we thought were appropriate

We had seen the rolling staffing triggers that come from air traffic controllers — one day it was L.A., another day it was in New York, Minneapolis, Atlanta — and so as we were looking at data, we were seeing increased numbers in some of…

This is not political

Many of the controllers said, ‘A lot of us can navigate missing one paycheck. Not everybody, but a lot of us can. None of us can manage missing two paychecks,’