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Democratic senators on Capitol Hill offered differing responses as to why they believe Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy made the call to reduce flights and air traffic ahead of the busy Thanksgiving travel surge.

After news broke that Duffy was ordering a 10% reduction in flight capacity at 40 airports across the country, Republicans remained largely unified in their messaging that any chaos caused by the forced reductions fell at the feet of Democrats.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said short of "planes falling out of the sky," Democrats will not vote to reopen the government. "Democrats are flirting with disaster," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who is the chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science a

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