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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Delta CEO slams Washington over unpaid TSA agents, says front-line workers are being used as ‘political chips’

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The CEO of Delta, the world’s largest airline by market cap, said he and his company are “outraged” TSA agents continue to work without pay as the partial government shutdown drags into its fifth week.

CEO Ed Bastian, in an interview with CNBC Tuesday, specifically called out representatives in Washington, D.C., telling them to “do their job.”

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