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(The Hill) -- President Donald Trump connected Monday criticized air postulation controllers who did not enactment without wage during the authorities shutdown and threatened that those who did not instrumentality to enactment instantly would beryllium "docked."
"All Air Traffic Controllers indispensable get backmost to work, NOW!!! Anyone who doesn’t volition beryllium substantially 'docked,'" Trump posted connected Truth Social.
In a lengthy Truth Social post, Trump called for aerial postulation controllers who worked during the shutdown to person a $10,000 bonus portion complaining that those who took clip disconnected would beryllium looked upon negatively.
"You didn’t measurement up to assistance the U.S.A. against the FAKE DEMOCRAT ATTACK that was lone meant to wounded our Country," Trump posted. "You volition person a antagonistic mark, astatine slightest successful my mind, against your record. If you privation to permission work successful the adjacent future, delight bash not hesitate to bash so, with NO outgo oregon severance of immoderate kind!"
Trump medication officials stressed passim the shutdown that the nation's aerial postulation power systems were particularly strained arsenic workers went without paychecks.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said galore aerial postulation controllers could spend to miss 1 paycheck but could not afford to miss a second. Duffy past week announced determination would beryllium a simplification successful flights astatine large airports to woody with the shortage of aerial postulation controllers.
The Senate voted precocious Sunday to move forward connected a measurement that would extremity the shutdown, which is the longest connected grounds astatine 41 days and counting.
