Donald Trump’s record-setting partial shutdown of the U.S. government — which kept roughly 800,000 federal workers unpaid for more than a month — is finally over. Don’t forget to thank your flight attendants.
In the end, no one person or group is solely responsible for making Trump back off the U.S.-Mexico border wall demand that left portions of American society crippled for more than a month. But on the shutdown’s 35th day, hours before it finally ended, headlines were dominated by news of disrupted travel plans.
Air travel was one of the many categories of American life impacted by the shutdown. Air traffic controllers and flight attendants both are federal workers, and as safety professionals, their work is deemed essential — which means they were still putting in their usual hours, but they were doing it without pay. Read more…
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