Overview
- More than 1,800 U.S. flights were canceled Sunday as the FAA ordered domestic schedule cuts that are set to expand from roughly 4% now to about 10% by Friday, according to FlightAware and officials.
- The FAA’s reductions target domestic routes, with international flights largely spared, and airports such as Newark reported arrival delays exceeding two hours.
- The shutdown, now the longest on record since beginning Oct. 1, has left hundreds of thousands of federal workers unpaid, with acute controller shortages leading to widespread no-shows, including in Atlanta.
- The Supreme Court issued a temporary administrative action allowing the administration to delay immediate SNAP disbursements, leaving about 42 million beneficiaries in uncertainty while litigation continues.
- Media outlets including CNN and Fox News report Senate negotiators have reached a short-term funding agreement through January, with a vote expected and final passage still uncertain in the narrowly divided House.