Welcome to The Logoff: The FAA has ordered flight cancellations at airports across the nation, beginning right now — and whereas the impacts aren’t too dramatic but, the cuts will get extra stringent quickly.
What occurred? Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says that due to the federal government shutdown’s pressure on air visitors controllers, who’ve been going with out pay, he’ll begin proscribing flights at airports.
On Thursday, he launched an order doing simply that. At 40 extremely trafficked airports, carriers should scale back 4 p.c of their operations right now — growing to 10 p.c by subsequent Friday.
Is that this political? Many interpreted Duffy’s motion as an try to make extra folks really feel the ache of the shutdown, in order to stress Democrats into agreeing to finish it.
Have airports been thrown into chaos? The general stage of 4 p.c cancellations on Friday is just not but so uncommon. Southwest Airways known as it “a stage we routinely handle throughout normal climate or irregular operational occasions,” per the Wall Road Journal.
Nonetheless, the restrictions will get extra painful as they ramp as much as 10 p.c subsequent week.
Will the shutdown ever finish? Hypothesis that this may very well be the week for a deal to reopen the federal authorities didn’t pan out, partly as a result of Democrats, inspired by their sturdy efficiency in Tuesday’s elections, now imagine they’re successful the politics of the shutdown and may maintain out for extra concessions.
President Donald Trump has been digging in too. He’s urged Senate Republicans to abolish the filibuster and reopen the federal government with their social gathering’s votes alone — however, to date, they’ve refused. So the longest shutdown in historical past is getting longer.
And with that, it’s time to log out…
I’ve just lately been watching the BBC’s Planet Earth II and was captivated by a sequence that includes child iguanas who, instantly after hatching, should run to attempt to make it to their island’s “protected space” previous a seemingly countless variety of lethal snakes. Fortunately, I discovered this text from Caroline Framke within the Vox archives explaining the way it was filmed — wild stuff.
