“Problem children” air traffic controllers who call in sick as a form of protest during the government shutdown could be fired, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Thursday.
“I think what’s happening here, 90 percent of the controllers, they show up, they come to work, but 10 percent of them are lashing out,” Duffy told Fox Business on Thursday.
“It’s a small fraction of people who don’t come to work that can create this massive disruption and that’s what you’re seeing rippling through our skies today,” he added.
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