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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

Trump reveals he has no idea how to pay the $10K he promised air traffic controllers who kept working through the shutdown

President Donald Trump has admitted he does not know where the $10,000 bonus he promised overworked and unpaid air traffic controllers for their efforts during the government shutdown will come from.

With an end to the longest shutdown in American history now in sight after a Republican breakthrough in the Senate, the president sat down for a primetime interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle on Monday evening, where he was asked about the hardships endured by federal workers during the impasse.

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