Vice President JD Vance warned on Thursday that holiday travel will be a “disaster” if the government shutdown does not end.
“It could be a disaster, it really could be,” Vance said during a press conference at the White House on Oct. 30. “At that point, you’re talking about, [how] people have missed three paychecks, they’ve missed four paychecks. How many of them are not going to show up for work?”
After hosting a closed-door roundtable with aviation leaders, Vance voiced his concerns about how the shutdown will impact the air travel industry.
The vice president predicted the wait-time on security lines would be four hours long and hinted that essential employees, who have been working without pay since the shutdown began Oct. 1, might leave their positions to get jobs that would allow them to pay their bills. Those staffers include air traffic controllers, transportation security officers, technicians, and pilots. …