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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Wednesday announced a 10% reduction in flights across 40 “high volume” U.S. airports, starting Thursday. He said the Federal Aviation Administration was cutting hundreds of flights to “alleviate the pressure” on air traffic controllers, who have been working without pay since the beginning of what is now the longest government shutdown on record.

President Donald Trump told Senate Republicans on Wednesday that the shutdown was a “big factor, negative for the Republicans,” in Tuesday’s elections, and they needed to “get the government back open soon — and really, immediately.” Democrats have been demanding a negotiated settlement to the standoff, but Trump said “the only way” to end the shutdown was for GOP senators to “termina

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