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VP Vance: Shutdown Threatens Thanksgiving Travel Chaos
10/31/2025
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Story summary
- Vice President JD Vance and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warn the shutdown risks travel ahead of Thanksgiving.
- Vance and Duffy, speaking at a White House roundtable with aviation leaders, cite impacts on air traffic operations.
- Air traffic controllers face missed paychecks.
- The travel industry loses about $1 billion weekly.
- Democrats must pass a clean spending bill to reopen the government, rejecting talks tied to healthcare subsidies.
