We hope you weren’t planning on traveling for the holiday.

On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced plans to slash airline traffic by ten percent at 40 of the nation’s busiest airports starting on Friday, a move that will cause immense disruption ahead of Thanksgiving weekend, the busiest travel season of the year. It will also pile pressure on Congress to end the ongoing government shutdown, which is the longest in history.

Transportation secretary Sean Duffy explained that the reduction in flights will “alleviate the pressure” on the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic controllers, who’ve been working without pay since the shutdown began on October 1.

“I think it’s going to lead to more cancellations,” Duffy said at a news conference, per Politico.

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