The Federal Aviation Administration is ordering airlines to reduce domestic flights by 10% at 40 of the country’s busiest airports, including JFK, LaGuardia and Newark, starting Friday.

The move comes in response to the ongoing government shutdown, which has left thousands of air traffic controllers working without pay for more than five weeks and is now the longest in American history.

“My department has many responsibilities, but our No. 1 job is safety,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement Thursday. “This isn’t about politics — it’s about assessing the data and alleviating building risk in the system as controllers continue to work without pay.”

“It’s safe to fly today, and it will continue to be safe to fly next week because of the proactive actions we are t

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