Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Already short-staffed air traffic controllers are feeling the strains of the nearly month-long government shutdown, and will not be paid this week as the government shutdown continues.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned on Sunday that air traffic controllers are "wearing thin," with 22 air traffic controller staffing triggers occurring at airports across the country on Saturday.
The triggers are an internal alert to signal when staffing levels fall below safe or acceptable limits for operations.
"They get a notice of what they're going to be paid on Tuesday, and they got a big fat zero. No paycheck is coming on Tuesday, and so I've been out talking to our air traffic controllers, and you can see the stress," Duffy told host Maria Bartiromo on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" show.
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