Sean Duffy: “We don't have enough air traffic controllers.”

“Normal being defined. Prior to the shutdown, you started out with, what, two or 3,000 air traffic controllers? You were down two or 3,000 of them. Yeah, we are. So We don't have enough air traffic controllers. So first off, we've tried to, I call it, surge air traffic controllers if it takes two years.” (04:10–04:13)

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