And so I want to lay out what's, what's happening, make sure America knows what the consequences are for a foolish shutdown on behalf of illegals because it has impacts on the traveling public's life. As they see more delays in the system, I find that to be unacceptable. I have more value for our controllers that I think we're seeing from the Congress. And again, I would ask our controllers to show up for work and I would ask Democrats in the Senate to have a vote, open up the government and then sit down and have a conversation and negotiate with that. (18:45–18:52)
CLAIM
Asserts that Congress does not value air traffic controllers as much as he does.
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