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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrew Feinberg

Trump threatens to ‘dock’ already unpaid air traffic controllers who call out sick: ‘I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU’

With Congress poised to approve a bipartisan deal to end the longest-ever government shutdown in American history, President Donald Trump has turned his attention to attacking air traffic controllers for taking sick time while being forced to remain on the job without pay since the beginning of last month.

Writing on Truth Social, Trump said the essential safety workers who ensure planes do not crash into each other while traveling through the nation’s busiest airspaces “must get back to work, NOW!!!”

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