The Federal Aviation Administration is now planning to furlough 47,000 workers throughout the rest of the fiscal year.
The absence of these workers could delay flights in major airports 3 1/2 hours, and will create massive problems for travelers and shippers this summer.
According to the White House and the Department of Transportation, there's no other way to make the cuts required in the Sequester. BUT even with sequester cuts, Department of Transportation’s budget is still HIGHER this year!
We call on President Obama and the Congress to stop playing politics, and allow individual agencies to decide how to make the spending cuts required by the sequester as painless as possible.