Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Tuesday that his department may have to close certain parts of the country’s airspace next week if the government shutdown continues.

Blaming Democrats in Congress for the now 35-day shutdown, Duffy told reporters that if the stalemate does not end by Nov. 11, the country’s air travel system “will see mass chaos,” including flight delays, cancellations and perhaps the closing of certain airspace areas “because we just cannot manage it, because we don’t have the air traffic controllers.”

“With this shutdown, it would be dishonest to say that more risk is not injected into the system. There is more risk in the system,” Duffy added.

Last Tuesday, air traffic controllers missed their first paycheck since the shutdown began, after receiving “80 to 90

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