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Sean Duffy: “We're going to give them [controllers at the age of…”

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

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Sean Duffy tours Duluth airport, touts air traffic control funding [RAW]

Published | Video Starts at 05:28

We're able to bring in more instructors, which has been a problem. So all of these things coming together with trying to keep the controllers who are at the age of retirement, keep them from retiring, We're going to give them [controllers at the age of retirement] a 20% upfront cash bonus if they don't retire. they stay and they work for us. America needs them to stay on the job. So if we ask them to stay, let's pay them a little more to stay. (05:28–05:32)

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Asserts that a 20% upfront cash bonus is offered to controllers at retirement age to retain them.

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