Overview
- Senators advanced a bipartisan measure to fund the government through January 30 with a separate December vote on health‑care provisions, exposing divisions among Democrats, according to Il Giornale.
- Roughly 3,000 U.S. flights were canceled Sunday and more than 1,700 on Monday as disruptions mounted across major hubs, Corriere della Sera reported using FlightAware and Cirium data.
- The FAA ordered safety-driven cuts starting at about 4% from November 7 at 40 busy airports, with deeper reductions planned this week that carriers warn could worsen reliability.
- Staffing strains intensified as air traffic controllers skipped shifts and retirements accelerated to 15–20 per day from a typical four, with one Atlanta shift missing 18 of 22 scheduled controllers, officials said.
- President Donald Trump publicly threatened pay penalties for controllers who stayed home and said he would recommend $10,000 bonuses for those who kept working, even as industry losses run near $100 million per day and millions of passengers have been affected since October 1.