Young men and women, some of the brightest in the country, have to come into this profession, and this shutdown is going to make that more challenging, more difficult for us to accomplish that goal. We used to have four air traffic controllers retire every day. We now have 15 to 20 air traffic controllers retiring a day. So that's a problem. Long after you all finish covering the shutdown, we are going to be stuck and dealing with this problem where we're about 2000 controllers short trying to make up that difference. (01:36–01:49)
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Asserts that the retirement rate of air traffic controllers has increased from 4 to 15-20 per day.
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