Trump calls absent air traffic controllers 'traitors' during government shutdown

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US President Donald Trump has threatened to cut the pay of air traffic controllers who do not come to work due to illness during the shutdown. He called absent airport workers 'traitors'.In a post on his social media account Truth Social on Monday, Trump threatened air traffic controllers, saying that those who do not return to work will have their pay significantly cut.The president also wrote in the post, 'All air traffic controllers must return to work, now.

'Trump also said that he is recommending a $10,000 bonus for those who did not take leave during the shutdown and called them 'great patriots'.More than 2,000 additional flights had to be canceled in the United States yesterday due to the staffing shortage during the shutdown. About 7,100 flights departed from US airports late that day. The information was reported by the aircraft tracking website 'Flightwire'.Meanwhile, despite Trump threatening to cut salaries by calling them traitors, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) union described its members who are working day after day without pay as 'unsung heroes'.