Sean Duffy, the former reality TV host and current Secretary of Transportation, is upset with air traffic controllers who are calling out sick during the government shutdown, which has caused a surge in delays at airports across the country . On Thursday, Duffy threatened to fire those who aren’t showing up to work, calling them “problem children.”

“I think what’s happening here, 90% of the controllers, they show up, they come to work, but 10% of them are lashing out,” Duffy told Fox Business host Stuart Varney.

Duffy then pivoted into partisan talking points about Chuck Schumer, the Democratic minority leader in the U.S. Senate, who has been asking for Republicans to negotiate on health care to secure Democratic votes to reopen the government, which was shut down on Oct. 1.

“They’re

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