Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned on Tuesday that disruptions at U.S. airports will get worse as the government shutdown continues, using some of the most alarming language yet about the state of air travel. Air traffic controllers and TSA agents are currently working without pay, which has caused an uptick in workers calling out sick as they scramble to find side jobs to pay their bills.

Duffy noted that air traffic controllers will receive an email pay stub on Thursday indicating that their paycheck next week will be a “big fat zero.”

“Many of the controllers said a lot of us can navigate missing one paycheck. Not everybody, but a lot of us can. None of us can manage missing two paychecks,” Duffy said during a press conference in Pennsylvania that was supposed to be about th

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