Government Shutdown Exposes FAA’s Critical Failure, Grounding American Travelers

As the government shutdown drags into its second month, American travelers are bearing the cost of bureaucratic dysfunction and mismanagement. Newark Liberty International Airport reported flight delays of two to three hours, with ripple effects disrupting schedules at airports across New York City and beyond. This chaos is not an isolated incident but a symptom of a deeper crisis: the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is operating with critically depleted air traffic controller staff due to unpaid workers walking off the job. How long will Washington ignore this danger to our national transportation security? Nearly 13,000 FAA air traffic controllers have...