Overview
- Transportation officials are capping operations at 40 major airports, triggering about 1,000 daily cancellations and concentrating reductions on domestic routes.
- Cuts are projected at roughly 4% now, 6% by Tuesday and up to 10% by Friday if the funding lapse continues, with Washington Reagan, Chicago O’Hare and Atlanta among the hardest hit.
- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned the system will contract further this week to relieve strain on unpaid air traffic controllers.
- More than a million federal employees have missed paychecks as agencies furlough staff or require essential workers to remain on the job without pay.
- A federal judge ordered full November SNAP funding, but the Supreme Court granted the administration more time, and broader fallout includes NNSA furloughs with fewer than 400 maintaining nuclear warheads, curtailed federal court activity, SEC-related IPO delays, and closures at Smithsonian museums and national parks.