Massive flight delays could start with the stop; GOP moves to continue running flights

EXCLUSIVE: While federal agencies are reduced for what could be a closure of the prolonged government, representative Aaron Bean, R-Fla., Presents a bill to ensure that thefts of Americans can continue on time, regardless of the duration of the closure.

With the busiest period of the year for plane trips that are approaching quickly and tens of millions of Americans who should fly in the coming months, prolonged government could have catastrophic impacts on flight security as well as on the American travel plans.

To fight against this, Bean presented a bill, the “Funding Stability Act Act of 2025”, which would guarantee that the American air controllers and the essential staff of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) continue to be paid, even during a closure.

In a declaration to Fox News Digital, the BEAN office qualified the bill as a “preventive strike against chaos in the control tower, ensuring that the backbone of our aviation system does not loop under political blocking”.

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Representative Aaron Bean, r-Fla., Presents a bill to ensure that the essential workers of the FAA continue to be paid during government closings, protecting against the delays in massive theft that has taken place in the past. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images and Joe Burbank / Orlando Sentinel / Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

The press release explained: “These are not only payroll checks. It is a question of keeping our sky in safety, our flights in time and our economy.”

Air traffic controllers and other essential FAA staff do not receive payroll checks during government closings despite their obligation to work to ensure the security of the country’s flight schedules. Although these federal workers are finally paid when the government reopens, prolonged periods without pay check lead to stress on workers and the overall flight system.

In 2019, the 35th day of a government closure, ten air traffic controllers called patients in Virginia and Florida, triggering ground stops at Laguardia airport in New York and in the cascade in Newark, Philadelphia and Atlanta.

Bean’s bill aims to make sure that something like this does not happen.

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Travelers check their phones while browsing the delays and cancellations of flights at Austin-Bergstrom international airport on July 19, 2024, in Austin, Texas. (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)

If it is adopted, the bill would make funds in the airport and the trustee of airlines no longer appropriate available for use in order to continue to pay air traffic controllers and security inspectors up to 30 days without the congress needing to act, according to a bill obtained by Fox News Digital. The funds used will then be reimbursed by official credibility once it is adopted by the Congress.

By mainly taking funds from the airport and the air -lane fident fund, which is funded by air ticket taxes and other taxes, the FAA and the air trips of the Americans would be protected by the brunt of a government closure.

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A southwest plane lands at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, December 30, 2022. (AP photo / Carolyn Kaster, file)

“While the Congress pursues negotiations on the funding of the federal government, I hope that we can all agree: people who keep the American sky run in time,” Bean told Fox News Digital.

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“We cannot afford to let a government close to disturb the backbone of our aviation system,” he added. “This is why I introduced legislation to make sure that our air traffic controllers are paid, and the FAA works without interruption. It is a question of protecting public security and defending aviation professionals who advance our country.”