On Thursday, the nation’s four major airlines came together to embrace the Republican position that the government shutdown should end with a clean continuing resolution. However, NBC’s Today was the only Friday morning show to report this. By contrast, CBS Mornings made it seem as if the airlines wanted squabbling siblings to just get along, while ABC’s Good Morning America was content to only talk about generic travel chaos.
While Friday may have been Halloween, CBS correspondent Cristian Benavides was quick to point out that the Thanksgiving travel period is not that far away, “It comes as around 13,000 air traffic controllers missed their first full paycheck on Tuesday, and they could miss at least two more by Thanksgiving if the stalemate continues.”
After a clip of Vice President JD Vance lamenting air traffic controllers are currently going without pay, Benavides echoed his previous point, “And with more controllers calling out sick and the holidays right around the corner, Transportation Sean Duffy had this stark warning Thursday.”
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