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Sean Duffy: “I'm offering them a 20% upfront bonus, cash to Stay on and…”

Featuring: Sean Duffy, Republican | Secretary of Transportation | National

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Transportation Sec. Duffy on upgrades to air traffic control, enabling commercial space competition

Published | Video Starts at 02:07

So that process is underway. I've also offered controllers. After 25 years, they get to retire. Many of them are retiring at, you know, 48, 52 years old. I'm offering them a 20% upfront bonus, cash to Stay on and keep working for us. And it's going to be nibbles, bits and pieces that we're working on that it's going to make up this 3000 controller deficit that we have right now as well … (02:07–02:14)

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Asserts that a 20% upfront bonus is being offered to air traffic controllers to delay retirement.

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